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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Estimates of the incidence of illegal abortions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.023208.18033@ncsu.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan15.125423.4796@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1993Jan15.233521. <1993Jan23.013556.9249@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:32:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.013556.9249@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- acolman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alison Colman) writes:
- >vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
-
- >> Could it be possible that the availability of abortion may influence
- >> partners to be less careful with contraception? Could it not then
- >> ALSO be possible that were abortion proscribed, these same partners
- >> would begin being MORE careful than they were previously? Could this not
- >> then reduce the 1.5 million unwanted pregnancies per year that WOULD
- >> have resulted in an abortion?
- >>
- >> With respect to at least my first question, Sandra Day O'Connor seems
- >> to think so.
-
- > As to whether the availability of abortion will have an influence on the
- > sexual behavior of other people in this country, that would be hard to
- > predict.
-
- I agree, but there is evidence from other countries which supports
- Mr. Simmond's hypothesis that abortion restrictions encourage couples
- to practice more effective contraception. (See, for example, an
- article in the December 1968 issue of Public Health Reports entitled
- "Demographic effects of abortion").
-
- > [... deletions ...]
- >
- > Going by what you said, can I reasonably assume that you are greatly in
- > favor of birth control being inexpensive and easily obtained?
-
- I don't know about Mr. Simmonds, but I am in favor of inexpensive
- and accessible birth control.
-
- > In the meanwhile, though, what would you say to someone like me? Would you
- > have the gall to say to someone like me that I shouldn't have sex because
- > I can't afford the best birth control out there? If I want to have
- > intercourse, it is within my right to do so, and it is not within anyone
- > else's right to tell me I can't.
-
- Why do you equate the right to sexual intercourse with the right to
- abortion? I don't see the connection. Also, why do you equate sex
- with sexual intercourse? Don't you think it's possible to have sex
- without having sexual intercourse?
-
- > Not to mention that I think that is a
- > really snotty motive for making abortion illegal -- to try to control the
- > sex lives of others.
-
- No, Mr. Simmonds is interested in reducing the number of abortions.
- If abortion were harder to get, couples might practice contraception
- more effectively, thus possibly having the effect of reducing the
- number of abortions resulting from unplanned pregnancies.
-
- >Alison
-
-
- ---
- Doug Holtsinger
- 'finger dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu' for documentation which shows that
- Roe v. Wade is unrestricted abortion-on-demand throughout pregnancy.
-