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From: sas@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Can we make progress?
Message-ID: <30381@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 18:13:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 18:13:53 1985
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Marcia, Sophie, Barb, Matt, Matt, Charles, Charli, Rich, Ray, Gary and
	everyone else :

	We have been argueing lots of issues about why and if abortion
is this or that and why and if it is good or bad.  I would like to put
that aside for a bit and try a different subject.  Abortion exists, all
of us probably want to see it stop.  It won't stop if we just drop it,
and it won't stop if we legislate it.  What will most effectively and
effeciently eliminate abortion?  ( I mean the fact of abortion, not the
right to it! ).
	Abortion is not the problem, it is the symptom of a problem.  

	A lot of discussion has occured recently about moral issues
surrounding sex.  Unfortunately this is an important issue in the
abortion debate.  What attitudes about sex, if globally held, might
yeild a society without abortion?

	A lot of discussion has occured (not recently) about social
issues surrounding ability to pay for abortions/birth control.  This
also is an important issue.  What method of dealing with poverty
would help eliminate abortions (the demand for them)?