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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
- In-Reply-To: labach@acs.ucalgary.ca's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:40:00 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:09:49 GMT
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- On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:40:00 GMT, labach@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terence Michael Labach) said:
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- >In article <C1F7pv.HJt@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON
- >MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- >>
- >> In article <1993Jan25.143139.21172@cdf.toronto.edu>
- >> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >> >You are neglecting the impact on the woman's life of having to go through
- >> >an entire unwanted pregnancy.
- >>
- >> Oh, boo-hoo. Better to go through with what many would consider murder?
- >> Unless the woman was raped, she is partially responsible for being pregnant.
- >> Eventually, you have to accept responsibility for your own actions.
-
- >Yes, and by seeking an abortion, the woman IS taking responsibility for
- >her actions, and life too. No woman I've known who has had an abortion
- >did it lightly or frivolously - the seriousness of the matter was very
- >much in their minds.
-
- Same here -- those I've known have taken their choice anything *but* lightly.
- It's always been a bit of a mystery to me how the pro-forced-birth folks, who
- so blithely assume they know precisely why any female would make any
- reproductive choice they wouldn't approve of, can't seem to find any of the
- women we know. (I believe it has something to do with trying to hide data that
- would tend to undermine their assertion. :-)
-
- >When you write "accept responsibility for your own actions" you seem to
- >really mean "be punished by my simplistic moral standards".
-
- That's basically the impression I get, too...
-
- --PLH (next time, send some *Russian* postcards...)
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