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- From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
- Subject: abortion & child abuse
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.1842.655@execnet>
- Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
- Organization: Executive Networks Information
- Distribution: alt
- Date: 26 Jan 93 08:58:57 EST
- Lines: 35
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- NS> before it becomes a child to be abused or neglected.
-
- NS> Only those who wish to give proper care to a child should have
- NS> one. There are worse things in the world than non-existence.
- NS> Child abuse is one.
-
- Consider this:
-
- "The specter of child abuse is used as part of a broader pro-abortion
- argument, that every child born into this world must be 'wanted', and
- that social evils will result if they are not. I have some important
- philosophical objections to the 'unwantedness'line, but will limit
- myself here to matters of simple logic."
-
- "Would that all children were wanted. But projections of future harm
- from present emotions are totally unreliable. At some point in
- pregnancy, many children are temporarily 'unwanted'. For that matter,
- offspring are often 'unwanted' at certain moments after they
- are born. An unwanted alpha <author's term for unborn child> does not
- always end up as a resented baby. AS FOR BATTERED CHILDREN, THERE IS
- NO SOLID EVIDENCE THAT UNWANTEDNESS DURING PREGNANCY PRODUCES BATTERING.
- RATHER, BATTERED CHILDREN APPEAR TO BE THE RESULT OF MISTREATMENT OF
- THE PARENTS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES WERE CHILDREN."
-
- From: Nathanson, Bernard, MD with Richard N. Ostling. ABORTING AMERICA.
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. Quotes from pp. 190-191.
-
- To which may I add, abortion is a form of child abuse.
-
- Adrienne Franco
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