Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!burl!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: "The child of a fiend" Message-ID: <6050@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 19:00:23 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.6050 Posted: Tue Oct 8 19:00:23 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 07:16:51 EDT References: <5986@cbscc.UUCP> <5@uscvax.UUCP> <6032@cbscc.UUCP> <1333@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 28 In article <1333@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes: >> [Paul Dubuc] >> If the fetus is not to be hated because of the rape then there >> is a greater possibility of remorse from the abortion being added to >> the trauma of rape. This may explain the placing of the stigma on the >> fetus as a defense mechanism, an added justification for abortion. >> But even as such, I think it is misplaced and unjust. On top of these >> possibilities, the burden of how to deal with them seems to be placed >> completely on the woman (and may be shared by members of her family). >> Is she going to make the best decision for her and her child on her own? >> Is there much support for decisions other than abortion? It seems that >> nobody dares ask her these questions. >------ >Oh, come on. You seem to think the way to relieve the burden of a >difficult choice is to make one of the alternatives illegal. Just think >of the possibilities of extending this way of thinking into other difficult >decisions we must make. We could have the state decide where we will live, >where we will work, etc., etc. Think of all the burdens we would then >be relieved of. >-- >Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan Another one who doesn't bother reading the whole of the article (i.e. the portions he edits out of his response). Go and read again what I said about the legality of abortion in cases of rape. -- Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd