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From: owens@gatech.UUCP (Gerald R. Owens)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: we have cause to be suspicious
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 14:16:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 14:16:52 1984
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Has anyone bothered to check the cost/benefits of abortion regarding
the parties involved???
The woman:  possible social embarassment, physical inconvenience,
	    loss of time and money, probable dangers to health and
	    life, desire to avoid the time, work and expense of
	    raising the kid, possible lowering of lifestyle.  
	    All are avoided by an abortion.

The father: possible social embarassment (although much less than
            for the woman in this society, sad to say), loss of money
	    to have the child delivered and raised, along with the
	    possible lowering of lifestyle.  All are avoided
	    by an abortion.

The doctor: No abortion, no fee.

The politician:  Who me???  Why should I stop it??  Those three
	    people up there can vote.  The fetus can't!

The Judge:  Well, The fetus can't hire a lawyer, obviously.  Civil
	    rights violated??  Is it human??  Hmm, a good question.
	    I'll have to ask a few doctors (Now, guess who is consulted.
            No peeking, only one guess.  AWWW!!  You got it!! :-)

Suggested mapping function:
mother,father --> slave owners
fetus --> slave
doctor --> slave trader
politician --> politician
Judge --> Supreme Court in deciding the Dred Scott case that slaves
	  were not covered by the Constitution.
abortion -->  not having slaves.  (the analogy is a bit imperfect
				       here)

Moral:  Too many people are benefitting from abortion, especially in
a financial and powerbased way.  Although all of them (especially
the mother) have a valid concern, one must realize that humankind
has had a history of overlooking many facts when money and power are
involved.  just as in slavery (and in other cases where people have
been oppressed), the special interests in the issue had good financial
and power hungry reasons for asserting that certain entities were not
human or not covered by the laws or not deserving of any USUAL concern
that they accorded to others.  However, my observation breaks down
here for one reason: the slaves could fight and shoot, given the
resources, and had the aid of those who the slave owners said
"it's none of your business!  WE have our rights!".  A fetus can't
do much more than kick (if it's allowed to develop that far.).
Unseen, mute, and can't defend itself, it makes for a perfect victim.
As for us pro-life/anti-abortion people, apparently the above are
telling us "It's none of your business!  WE have our rights!".

The question of whether it is human or not is indeed *the* question.
However, let us be aware of the outside biases that would influence
the answering of the question.  In view of the above, we have
cause to be suspicious...

				Gerald Owens
				Owens@gatech