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From: barry@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Mikki Barry is a Pro-Lifer
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 00:06:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 16 00:06:19 1985
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Please, don't call me names.

Point #1

A WBZ poll conducted  February of 1985 composed EXCLUSIVELY of practcing
catholics found that 74% AGREED WITH ABORTION ON DEMAND!  If you like, I
will get a hardcopy and mail it to you.  I DO check my facts.

Because I may believe that a fetus is a potential life (or even a real, live
life) does not make me anti-abortion.  I simply believe that the woman's
rights override any of the potential being to use her as a life support
system.

Yes, men have responsibility (or should) for an unwanted pregnancy.  But
men don't get morning sickness, men don't have to see the doctor at least
once a month, take vitamins, watch everything he eats and drinks, wake up at
4am with stomach pains from a 6+ month old fetus kicking, etc.  He doesn;t
even have to hang around to pay for the kid if it is born.  It would be nice
to live in a society where everyone really did share equal responsibility.
Perhaps you would stick around, but I have seen too many men bolt as soon as
they found that the woman who thought he loved her was pregnant.

Yes, sex is a very special thing.   Yes, people should take responsibility
for sex, BUT I have known responsible people using contraception who have
gotten pregnant anyway.  AND the men involved were nowhere to be found once
they found what they were also responsible for.  I also know of MANY young
women who are too ignorant of birth control methods to even know they have
to ASK to get information ("Nothing will happen if its the first time", etc).
And what happens if I don't think sex is so special, and am on contraception,
and get pregnant anyway by some guy that takes off when he finds out?  Am I
then obligated to take on his responsibility as well, and have the baby?
However, if I think sex is special, but get raped, I can have an abortion
because it wasn't my fault?

Nobody's saying this is a simple issue.  I believe that there are too m
many abortions, and many are done as birth control methods.  However, that
is no reason to tell me I can't have one.  Instead, pro-lifers should
dedicate themselves to preventing problem pregnancies.  (Yes, there are
such things).

Mikki Barry
Pro Choice