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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: Sun, 24-Mar-85 21:40:55 EST
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Here we go again........

Matt Noah seems to think that pro-choicers are all pro-abortion....ok
he is entitled to his opinion.  But the statement that pro-choicers
believe the way they do because of money is ludicrous at best.  One
could also say pro-lifers are that way because of money...they don't
want to pay for poor woman's abortions.

Mr. Noah also seems to draw a corelation between frequency of child abuse
and abortion's legality.  That is like drawing a correlation between the
number of people who died in vietnam, and what kind of drinking water
they had as kids.  Gee, maybe it did have something to do with it  :)

As for legalizing cocaine, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters advocated it
in a national forum 20/20.  After getting over the shock, I stopped to
think about it.  Legalizaing cocaine and other illegal drugs would
bring in the same controls as it did with abortion.  People would stop
dying because of bad drugs, as they stopped dying because of bad abortions.
The government (not the mafia) would be in control, and it could be
taxed to bring in more revenue.  Or is this the same argument as with
abortion's legality.....you became addicted to drugs, you should take
the risk of dying because of it (you got pregnant, that's your problem)
which it seems Noah is saying.

p.s.  is your Tender Life example pro-choice, or does it tell a woman
who comes to them for help that she would be a murderer if she had
an abortion?