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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Back to you, Ken
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 09:22:19 EST
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I can't stand it any more!  Mikki Barry says that the issue
of convenience is irrelevant to the the abortion discussion.
That is just a lot of hogwash.  Convenience is the heart
and soul of the abortion issue.  If it weren't for the
self-centered, egotistical attitudes which prevail amoung
our most vocal pro-choice people, the abortion rate would
drop by 90%.   All I hear is "What's in it for me?"  The
statistics have shown (don't ask, they have been printed
in dozens of previous articles) that the overwhelming
reason for abortions today are for convenience, not for
reasons of rape, incest, malformation, or danger to the
mother.  The use of abortion as just another convenient
birth control method is what the furor is all about.

If, and I say a big IF, abortion is ever accepted as "just
another birth control method," where does it lead us?
Wouldn't it be convenient to make euthanasia public
policy?  Euthanasia is NOT murder by definition (look
it up).  It is a mercy killing.   Wouldn't it be merciful
to euthanise all of those old folks living out their
lives in abject poverty?  This is a common argument
for abortion isn't it?  "We need abortion to help
those at the poverty level keep their numbers down."
In my opinion, abortion is murder when it is used
as a birth control method.  Further, it is blatently
racist when it is foisted on the people at the lower
end of the economic scale.  

Convenience is not an abortion issue indeed!  
Convenience is the ugly issue that keeps the abortion
controversy alive.  If you choose to ignore it then
you have no idea of what is happening out there in the
real world.  When even the abortion clinics report that
90% of all abortions were not necessary, then you are not
listening to the 1.5 million voices that will now
never be heard.  
T. C. Wheeler