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- From: hsims@vax.clarku.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: RE: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <28JAN93.16162339@vax.clarku.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:16:23 GMT
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- In a previous article, hamilton@mothra.rose.hp.com (Steve Hamilton) wrote:
- >Tina Coles,xt-de,6764 (exutcol@exu.ericsson.se) wrote:
- >
- >>Many pro-choicers were also adopted at a time before RvW. I cannot help
- >>thinking about the 17-year-old girl thrown out of her home, having to
- >>carry her pregnancy full term and give birth without the support of her
- >>family. I find that very sobering.
- >
- >>Tina
- >
- > Tina, just curious, do you know any pro-choice adoptees? I have been
- > involved in an adoptee organization and none supported unrestricted
- > abortion.
-
- I am a pro-choice adoptee, as are my sister and several of my friends.
-
- > Regarding the above mentioned 17 year old girl. You assume she had no
- > support. In fact she and her step-mother had not been getting along
- > for some time. She moved in to the Salvation Army home for unwed mothers
- > and was supported by them as well as her father,sister, boy friend and
- > his parents.
- >
- > I know this because eight years ago I searched and found her and my
- > birth father. I thanked her for letting me live.
-
- If it was up to you would you force an unwilling woman to give birth to you?
- I've never met my birth mother, but it troubles me to think about the fact
- that once she was pregnant she really had no choice but to carry to term. I
- could never be so selfish as to insist that a woman remain pregnant against
- her will, risking her health, her future, and possibly her life, just so that
- I could be born.
-
- > Steve
-
- .... Heather.
-