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From: nap@druxo.UUCP (Parsons)
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Subject: Re: Gosh I hope...reply by Paul Dubuc
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 16:29:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 16:29:12 1985
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Paul Dubuc:
> I'd like to know how the pro-choice stance in any way mitigates the
> attitude of men that women are a receptacle for their sperm?  If anything
> it seems to make her a more convenient, less consequential, an reusable
> receptacle.

Paul, I have to agree with you wholeheartedly.

Pro-choice and pro-life wear different cloaks--one arguing for
"reproductive freedom" (without responsibility?), the other for "personal
fulfillment" (which is somehow supposed to be found in motherhood in a way
that is quite different from men's as found in fatherhood).

In my opinion, pro-choice no more serves women's best interests than the
traditional barefoot-and-pregnant philosophies of the past.  In both, women
are primarily the tools and toys of men.

If the energies expended on both sides of this issue were directed toward
treating women as fully human (humanists), created in God's image
(Christians), etc., maybe some real progress could be made.

Nancy Parsons
AT&T ISL