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From: unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: One person's view
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 16:23:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 16:23:32 1985
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   I am new to the net (be gentle.. this is my first posting)

   I have been reading this group for awhile now and thought I'd throw
out and _not too hypothetical_ scenario for some of you to chew on.

  I've known for a long time that I did not like children ( I don't hate
them, I just am not fond of them. (Feel much the same about cats, you want
one go ahead, just keep it out of my yard))  I was also a charming (but 
incredibly sickly ... bad allergies, mysterious maladies, etc.) kid.
I therefore decided I would NOT have children and stayed on the Pill for
seven years until I got my tubes tied at age 27.  I made this decision,
no one else, not my parents, not my significant others , ME because I was
the one who would bear the burden of my actions.

  I did consult with my (then to be) husband to be because I wanted him to know
he was getting me NOT any 'fruit of my womb'. If he wanted any progeny
he was going to have to handle it himself (so to speak). He didn't care,  
so no problem.  So far everything is fine. 

  Enough background, What would all you people propose that I do if I 
became pregnent? ( I am NOT so feel free so propound any solutions)

  I would not want the kid (my genes are too poor to wish them passed on)
I know what it was like to feel isolated during childhood (missing tons
of school, always out of step with the other kids , usually feeling
relatively rotten) and add the fact that in grad school I found that
my retinas are detachable (this is not good and is hereditary in my family.
I was the youngest to get it so far at age 25)

  Do you _right to life_ believers REALLY think I ought to spend nine
months (probably miserable if my history is a factor) to produce a
pretty poor speciman of a child (it would have to have SOME of my genes
and my husband's aren't  a lot better ) WHEN I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING 
REASONABLE TO KEEP FROM GETTING PREGNANT? (Except abstinance Sorry that's
out)

     Having seen the results of other people's postings, I'm ready to 
duck when/if I'm flamed so have at it.

                        Madelyn T. Gould



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             unixcorn  (alias m. gould)

                   "there's a unicorn in the garden and he's eating a lily"
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