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From: barry@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Reply to Mikki Barry's comments
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 23:52:08 EST
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It is the kind of hysteria such as yours that makes it impossible for any
compromise in the abortion issue.

I HAVE had friend go to abortion clinics, and I HAVE gone with them.  I will
tell you that the clinics I have been to are VERY concerned with the woman
involved.  They ask her over and over again if she is sure she wants the
abortion, and if she would like to be referred to a mental health pro
if she wants to clarify her own choice to herself.  Most clinics also
offer many gynecological services besides abortion, so believe me, they
don't live on abortion money.  They don't need to talk anyone into abortions
because the vast majority of women who go there are prefectly aware of their
choice.  It sickens me that some think that women are people who have to
be protected because they can't make their own choices and are so easily
persuaded to do something they consider horrible by unscupulous people who just
want money.  Women are perfectly intellegent enough to make their own
decisions.  They dont need help from you.

As for picketing clinics with pickled fetuses, I have SEEN a 12 week 
miscarriage.  It was approximately 1 and a half inches long, and NOT EVEN
CLOSE to fully formed.  By picketing a clinic in NH, pro-lifers harrassed
women who were deciding whether to participate in an FDA experimental
program with cervical caps as contracteption.  They defeated their own purpose
of stopping unwanted pregnancies.  (Or is it only the aftermath that they are
concerned with?)  When a woman who has decided that an abortion is the best
thing for her (and sometimes for the fetus as well), does she need to have
farcical pictures shoved in her face and be called a murderer?  She is already
traumatized enough.  What if the same woman was approached by someone offering
a realistic alternative.  What if she was told of a free program whereby she
would be taken care of, and receive adoption help, or help taking care of the
baby?  Wouldn't that be more productive than the lies being pushed in her
face now? 

PLEASE, for the sake of all women, stop the hysterical reaction to abortion
and work on something to benefit everyone - prevention of unwanted pregnancy?
Stop spending money on picketing, farcical films, and insulting women's
intellegence and put it into group homes, financial aid for pregnant women
and birth control information.  Isn't that better than raising everyone's
blood pressure?

Mikki Barry