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- From: mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills)
- Subject: Re: The Silent Holocaust
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.124326.22343@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
- Sender: news@rigel.econ.uga.edu
- Organization: University of Georgia Economics Department
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:43:26 GMT
- Lines: 82
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- > K.E. Hauk
-
- > For all those out there who have had an abortion or are considering it: YOU
- >MADE THAT CHOICE BEFORE YOU GOT PREGNANT!
-
- Any comparable choice the MAN made before the pregnancy occurred, or is this
- just another woman who hates women?
-
- >Ok, excluding that small percentage
- >of rape victims who get pregnant.
-
- How do you know only a small percenntage of women who have abortions are
- rape victims? Millions of women are raped each year. Only 1.25 million
- women get abortions each year. Do you blindly believe EVERYTHING Mr.
- Preacher tells you, or have you actually exercised that couch-potato
- neuron lately?
-
- >But for the majority, don't tell me about
- >your freedoms of choice.
-
- Okay, I won't. It's none of your damn business anyway.
-
- >You made that choice the moment you had sexual
- >intercourse.
-
- Consent to sex does not equal consent to pregnancy. Say, Hauk, do you
- "think" you are bringing up anything new here?
-
- >What CHOICES did that baby have?
-
- What CHOICES did that roach have that you squished?
-
- >And how can you tell me when
- >life begins?
-
- Life on Earth has been an unbroken chain from billions of years ago to
- the present.
-
- >Can you prove to me that life doen't begin until birth?
-
- That's ridiculous. I just said life on Earth began billions of years
- ago. It certainly was there before the birth of any baby.
-
- >Can you
- >define life?
-
- Life The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead
- organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as
- metabolism, growth, response to stimuli, and reproduction.
-
- The American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition, p. 728.
-
- >What about the man. He's not always the one to push for the abortion. Doesn't
- >he have his choices also?
-
- If the man wants a baby, he cann make one with a willing partner, or, better
- yet, adopt one. He (and you) has no right to force me to risk my life and
- health.
-
- >Or do you also want the right to control his sperm?
-
- Well, you seem to want the right to control my body. This is truly the pot
- calling the kettle black here.
-
- At least "controlling his sperm" does not put his life and health at risk.
-
- >These are just few of my many thoughts...
-
- I'd say that's open to debate.
-
- >And I must note that I wouldn't be
- >able to voice these thoughts if my birthmother had opted to have an abortion
- >instead of giving me up for adoption in Bogota, Columbia!
-
- In other words, you wouldn't be here to nauseate people with your mindless
- blathering if your mother had not been hopelessly brainwashed by Catholicism.
-
- I am sorry you hate your mother so much that you would force her to carry
- you to term, no matter what the cost to her in terms of her life, health,
- education, and finances. I personally cannot think of anything more selfish.
- --
- Ferrari (mills@rolf.stat.uga.edu)
-