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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: killing human beings
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 01:22:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 01:22:43 1984
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Given the definition of human life beginning at the moment of conception,
and the subsequent outlawing of abortions at any point during the pregnancy
(the intent of several pieces of legislation in recent sessions of Congress)
also raises the spectre of a woman who has suffered a miscarriage being 
investigated for murder.  

I admit to never having been through an abortion, either spontaneous or planned.
However, I cannot think of anything crueler than harassment of a woman who
has lost a wanted child; or possibly indicting her based on an unwitting action
on her part.  

A second point:  Banning abortions will not stop abortions.  Women who can 
afford it will travel to a place where abortions are SAFE AND LEGAL.  Women
who cannot afford it will be the prey of "back-street butchers"...of course,
these women deserve to die. :-)     "Braided Lives", by Marge Piercy,
is an excellent novel that weaves this theme into the plot.  It gives a hint 
of the horrors of self-induced abortions, and an ideas of how COMMON they were
among the middle class.