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From: susan@vaxwaller.UUCP (Susan Finkelman)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: a gender difference
Message-ID: <261@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 11:46:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 11:46:43 1985
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Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek, CA
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> *Flame Alert*
> 
> In article <1452@reed.UUCP> (Ann Muir Thomas) writes:
> >If *I* had an unwnated child,
> >would *YOU* adopt it, or say, sorry you little slut, it's
> >all your fault. 
> This is the worst sort of juvenile crap I have seen in net.abortion during
> five months of reading drivel.  Not once in two years of working in pro-life
> groups have I heard anyone on either side of the debate make derogatory remarks
> about the morality of the young women dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
> There are only two places where this sort of evil badgering takes place - 
> among the lunatic fringe of the pro-life group, and in the minds of many
> pro-choicers.
> 

Maybe you haven't heard that sort of moralizing.  I have.  I spent 3 years
doing welfare casework in Missouri in the mid '70's.  Since the state didn't
have a whole lot to offer, I regularly sent young women (or girls - many
were under 18) to whatever resources I could come up with that MIGHT help.
I was told by a woman from Birthright that the woman who had come to see
her could put the baby up for adoption or IF SHE WOULD AGREE TO MEND HER
WAYS that perhaps a group could be found to help her if she kept her
baby.  And I was also told not to send girls not contemplating  abortion
(like they didn't need help?  like life stops at birth?)