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From: mn@dscvax2.UUCP (Matt Noah)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Reply to Mikki Barry's comments
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 21:23:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 21:23:26 1985
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Please do not be misled by the fallacy that abortion clinics are concerned
about a woman's emotional trauma.  The clinicians are concerned in part
about the woman's physical reaction to the abortion - mainly out of fear of
lawsuit.  Since I have never heard of an abortion clinic being sued for
emotional traumatization - even though an abortion is terribly traumatic -
you and I can surmise they are not concerned about a woman's mental health.
It is doubtful a court of law would give credence to the lawsuit anyway
since it was obviously the choice of the woman.  Where to turn to for 
emotional help???  One idea is to seek religous counseling.  As adoption
is an excellent alternative to abortion, contact an adoption agency.  It
is without much doubt that a an expactant woman who wants to give up her
child will be met with open arms as there are waiting lines for babies 
[ unfortunately this is not true for babies of black mothers ].

Picketing is now established as a resounding success in the pro-life
movement and has resulted in the diminished activity of many abortion
clinics.  Pro-choicers are hostile to picketing because it is so
successful and so American.  Picketing has also made the pro-life
movement resemble civil rights movements of past decades.

Pro-life groups will probably never work with abortion clinics in discussing
alternatives since pro-life groups do not consider abortion as an
alternative.   

Pickled fetuses are a reality and a scare tactic and are exactly the type
of thing needed to educate people.  Some people still think a fetus is a
blob of protoplasm when in reality a 10-week-old fetus is fully
distinguishable as a human being.  Also, consider the fact that abortion is
legal on a 39-week-old fetus!  Many babies do not spend that much time in the
womb.  If a mother's abdominal wall were transparent the abortion rate would
probably be orders of magnitude lower than what it is today.

Although woman today have a choice, the vast majority do not make an
informed choice.  Evidence this by the latest Gallup Poll Survey which
show that many women believe that the pill ... Read it for yourself to
find out how ignorant the people making the choices are.  The situation 
is no different than people's idea of the economy.  People who constantly
complain about the terrible state of the economy don't even know the concept
behind the GNP or the Dow, what an acceptable unemployment rate is or what
the current inflation rate.  The vast majority of people don't even know
their vital signs - what they are and what an acceptable measure of them is!
America is a land of choices - freedom - but when one person's choice 
infringes on the rights of another it is time to make a change.  Abortion
on demand is usually an uninformed choice which infringes upon the rights
of an unborn baby.

Matt Noah