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From: mn@dscvax2.UUCP (Matt Noah)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Late term abortions
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 13:00:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 13:00:45 1985
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> Subject: Re: Fingernails, hair clippings and the fetus
> 
>> Equates clipping your nails or getting a haircut with having an abortion.
>> Let's see, . . . my hair can't live unless it's attached to me . . .
>> 
> Well, YOU made the comparison, not me.  A 2 month old fetus cannot live
> unless attached to its mother either, while you're at it.  An eight month
> old fetus on the other hand, might, but who wants to abort 8 month old
> fetuses anyway?
> -- 
> Sophie Quigley
> {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie

Viability is not the issue here.  If it were, then Sophie would be pushing
for laws to protect 8 month old pre-born babies.  I don't believe she is.
By the way, approximately 41 abortions are performed daily in this country
AFTER the 20th week!  Since approximately 97% of abortions in this country
are done for reasons other than rape, incest or to save the life of the
mother, about 40 fully-formed human fetuses are being murdered daily.  If
you don't know what a 20-week-old fetus looks like, look it up.  This
being is not a blob of tissue; it is easily recognizable as a human being.
It can feel and responds to pain.  The horrors imposed by a late abortion
would sicken the unknowledgeable.  Dismemberment and saline solutions are
common abortion methods for late abortions.  Would even the cruelest among
us advocate these methods for the execution of death-row prisoners?  Pro-
choicers like to talk alot about incest, rape, the plight or poor women, etc.
but somehow forget to talk about the people who use abortion to cover up
extramarital sex and as birth control.  We can't define life based on
a perverted notion of convenience and freedom.  We have to protect everyone's
rights if we are to protect our own.

	When they persecuted you for being Black,
		I sat quiet for it did not effect me.
	When they persecuted you for being religious,
		I was too busy to help you.
	When they persecuted you in your old age,
		I turned away because I couldn't relate.
	When they persecuted me, I cried for help,
		but there was no one left to help me.

Matt Noah