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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Food for Thought
Message-ID: <7373@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 23:21:15 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 23:21:15 1984
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As a believer that women should have the right to control their body and
that nobody should have the right to force a woman to carry a fetus she
does not want, I do not see why the father should have more right to force
her to carry his fetus just because the fetus happened to originate from his
sperm.

Looking at it from the pro-life point of view, if the mother does not have the
right to abort her fetus, then why should the father have that right?

Once the child is born, things are different in that both can take care of the
child equally, except for lactation, but while the child is in the mother's
womb she is the only one who si taking care of it, so I believe she should be
the only one making the decision of whether or not she wants to take care of it
(given of course that she is allowed to make that decision)

Didn't I say exactly that already?

				Sophie Quigley
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