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From: owens@gitpyr.UUCP (Gerald Owens)
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Subject: Good Fallout
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 19:57:51 EST
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	Although the arguments for and against abortion get pretty
tortured at times, I have noticed at least one good effect from the
present debate.  A few years ago, church people acted quite in the
hypocritical way that many pro-choice people expect them to act now:
quite unforgiving to an unwed mother, and hardly desirous to help.
Things have changed, at least in my church.  One of my friends is
pregnant, and is getting all kinds of support, emotional and physical.
I also noted a kind congratulations to an unwed mother in the
Single Adults Sunday School Announcement.  A while back, I read
a candid book about a mother, active in the pro life movement, whose
daughter got pregnant out of wedlock.  Her purpose in writing the book
was to assure others in her position that, thanks to the pro-life
movement, the stigma of pregnancy out of wedlock has been pretty much
erased within churches that support the pro-life movement.  Even her
daughter's fellow students, by and large, didn't condemn her, although
there were the inevitable few that did take advantage of another's
misfortune to wag their tounges.  Apparently, the fallout from the
pro-life movement includes greater compassion for the woman who takes the
duty of bearing life seriously, as well as encouraging more acceptance
for those who have already had an abortion.  

-- 
Gerald Owens
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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