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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Re:	[No subject.  Sad, huh?]
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 17:02:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 17:02:16 1984
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It is better to adopt the fetus and have teh adopted kid and the
adopted parents unhappy. (note this seems more statistically
likely than parents with non adopted kids, but this is
not inevitable, just as it is not inevitable that not adopted
kids will turn out well). It is better to be unhappy than dead.

It also does not follow that people are doomed to unhappiness.
You can actually overcome whatever tendancies you have to be unhappy
and be happy. Both the women who says ``if I had this baby I could
never be happy again'' and the child who says ``unless I can know
my real mother I can never be happy'' are mistaken. People have
managed to be happy in spite of worse obstacles.

I am not in favour of celibacy. I am in favour of extremely
effective methods of birth control, like reversible sterilisation.
And while it is unfortunate that people using proper birth
control can still get pregnant, I do not think that it follows
that abortions are a good thing. 

i don't really see how being pregnant is such a disaster. It takes
9 months. (Actually, these days you could probably do it in
6 months. Incubators are wonderful things.) I am not saying that
you should be forced to raise the child. However, I fail to see
what it could be that is so important that you do for 9 months
that is worth killing something which might be a human being.
-- 
Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura

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