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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
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Subject: Re: Is Abortion Murder? yes and no.
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 20:50:38 EDT
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> > are not subject to governmental ruling. Each individual considering
> > an abortion must come to grips with their
> 
> Don't you mean, "her"?  Using "their" with a singular antecedent
> ("individual") is a giveaway that the writer is a feminist.

OH, ICKY GROSS!  A FEMINIST!  PTOOEY!  GET OFF THE NET, WHAT ARE YOU?
YOU FEMINISTS DON'T BELONG IN AMERICA!  Jeez, everybody knows that
men make the decisions around here.  And everybody knows that that's
the way it should be.  Jeez!  Yuck,  feminists.  Go on over to 
net.women, you icky things.

:-(, in case you couldn't tell.  

> "I have also said that anyone who doesn't feel sure whether we are
>  talking about a second human life should clearly give life the
>  benefit of the doubt.  If you don't know whether a body is alive
>  or dead, you would never bury it.  I think this consideration itself
>  should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."
>  (RONALD REAGAN, "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation", Nashville, 
>  Nelson, 1984, p.21)

But what if I feel quite sure that it is NOT a second human life; rather,
it is a part of the mother.  Therefore, it may be very difficult for her
to have it removed, but it is her choice.  This is how I see it.  Who
are YOU to tell me otherwise?  My opinion (for what it's worth; a lot
to me, but perhaps less you) is that a woman, or anybody for that matter,
cannot be forced to do something she (or he) does not want to do with
her own body.  So, if she doesn't want to carry a growth/fetus/whatever
around, and you don't think that she should destroy it, then you must
provide something for her to do with it.

> Maybe Mr. Jones lives and works in a circle where no one he knows
> supported Mr. Reagan, and all Mr. Jones's friends think terrible
> things about the President.  

Yep.  Me too.  Hi, Mr. Jones, I'm with you!

marie desjardins park