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- From: ece_0028@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (David Anderson)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Is it ever wrong?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.001645.22769@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:16:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.012340.15698@netcom.com> <1993Jan19.010903.13781@bsu-ucs> <19JAN93.20185693@vax.clarku.edu>
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- In article <19JAN93.20185693@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >In a previous article, 00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu wrote:
- >>In article <1993Jan15.012340.15698@netcom.com>, bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- >>>
- >>> I feel it is wrong for a woman to have an abortion if she could have
- >>> brought the fetus to term and put the baby up for adoption instead, at
- >>> no great hardship to herself. I'm not crazy about the idea of
- >>> aborting female fetuses in order to have a boy, or aborting because
- >>> the time's not right to raise a child, or abortion as a means of birth
- >>> control in lieu of better methods. Abortion is rarely the "best
- >>> choice", I feel, mainly because of the emotional trauma and physical
- >>> risks involved, but also because I don't like the idea of snuffing out
- >>> a human life.
- >>>
- >>But how is a woman ever to know if carrying the fetus to full term will be of
- >>any kind of hardship to herself until after she's had the baby, aside from
- >>medical hardships....?
- >
- >Why aside from medical hardships? A woman carrying to term is facing a risk
- >of death. She is also facing risks of pain, discomfort, and serious threats
- >to her health. Does this mean nothing to you?
- >
- > .... Heather.
-
- So women should never have children, because there might be
- discomfort or complications?
-