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- From: hasselbring@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Abortions should be rare
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.120500.2137@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:05:00 -0500
- References: <1993Jan25.195007.11399@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.195007.11399@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan25.115252.2129@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> hasselbring@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- >>According to both the Washington Post and the Washington Times,
- >>Clinton said that America should be a place where abortions are legal
- >>and safe, but rare.
- >>
- > He certainly did. Don't you think that's a good goal to shoot for?
- >
- >>I wonder what he meant by rare. Does he realize that currently one of
- >>every three pregnancies are terminated by abortion? Does he realize
- >>that over 4000 babies are aborted per day on the average in the US?
- >>
- > I think it's safe to say that President Clinton has access to more
- > statistics then any of us here would care to wade through. Of course
- > he knows wha tthe current rates are.
- >
- >>I know of no one who thinks that the repealing of the bans on
- >>22-Jan-93 will result in fewer abortions. How can Clinton say that he
- >>thinks aboritons should be rare when his actions will make abortions
- >>more common?
- >>
- > Perhaps because (being a rational man) he realizes tha tthe way to
- > reduce the number of abortions is to address the causes of abortion.
-
- But his actions in no way addressed the causes of abortion.
-
- > By education, ensuring the availability of effective, affordable
- > contraceptives, and by education.
-
- The most effective, most affordable "contraceptive" is to time sexual
- intercourse so that you do not have it during the 5 days each month
- when it is possible to conceive. This requires good cooperation
- and communication between husband and wife, an understanding of the
- processes of menstruation and conception, and a small amount of
- sacrifice (that is not being able to have sexual intercourse anytime
- the desire arrises).
-
- I agree that such education would be excellent!
-
- > If you want to reduce the number of abortions, banning abortions is
- > not the way to go about it. Address the causes. Teach kids the truth
- > about sex, and how to protect themselves. Encourage them to wait, and
- > discourage promiscuous behavior (just don't delude yourself into
- > thinking you're going to stop teenage sexual experimentation).
-
- I agree that we cannot completely stop promiscuous behavior. I do
- think that requiring those who are promiscuous to be responsible for
- their actions is not too much to ask. That is, they should be
- responsible for children they concieve by carrying them to term
- and then either raising them themself, or giving them to loving
- adoptive parents.
-
- Letting people think that abortion is an easy way out, only
- encourages them to be promiscuous.
-
- Sue Hasselbring
-
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