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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Birth control by ABORTION
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 16:45:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 26 16:45:34 1984
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> 
> In my opinion, some of the women who have been advocating
> unlimited abortion on this net are nothing more than selfish,
> self-centered, snot-nosed bitches.  They all have well paid jobs.
> Their partners most likely have the same.  Their only aim in
> life seems to be self gratification and to hell with anything
> that gets in their way.  Their concern isn't for the poor or
> disadvantaged.  They only want abortion to be available to
> them so that they can continue to pursue hedonistic impulses.
>
>  All of those arguments about
> what or who is alive or human are nothing more than a bunch
> of claptrap.  1.5 million deaths a year is sick.  
> T. C. Wheeler

Unlike Mr. Wheeler, I can't claim to speak for all the pro-choice
women.  I can speak for myself.
 
Candidly, I don't *need* liberal abortion laws; I use a reliable
(as reliable as they get) contraceptive, and I'm in a financial
state to support an unexpected child.  I have never had an abortion
in my life, and I sincerely hope never to do so.    
 
I'm pro-choice for the same reasons that I'm pro-freedom-of-speech;
because I believe that freedom of choice is a *good thing*.
I believe that the family involved should decide for themselves
if aborting a fetus is their best remedy.  I know people
whose lives have been wrecked by unwanted children; I know an unwanted
child who says it would have been better had she never been born.
The sufferings of the already-living seem more important to me
than the (possible) sufferings of the pre-born.  
 
(No, I don't believe that a fetus is the same as a child;I also
don't believe that an acorn is the same as an oak tree.  So an analogy
with infanticide doesn't hold.)

May I suggest that postings which say "I'm right and you're wrong, so
there's no point in arguing" generate more heat than light?
-- 
Betsy Perry
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