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From: salazar@cisden.UUCP (Kathy Salazar)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: a task for those opposed to abortion
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 14:46:08 EST
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Summary: STRONGLY PRO-CHOICE


Non-Religious Discussion...

Initially, when I am trying to analyze an ethical dilemma, I try to reverse
the situation to see if it still holds true.  

In reversing the abortion issue...
you would have abortion forced on people!
This obviously is silly and unreasonable since it would be forcing an operation
(like removing a kidney) on people who don't want it.  They have something
like this in the movie "The Meaning of Life", it is a comedy!!!  

If abortion is illegal...
what do you do with someone who is set on having one...arrest them?
My husband is a deputy in a county jail, they put prisoners who are 
set on 'hurting' themselves in solitary confinement.  Not a nice place,
You have no light, no clothes, two mattresses and a hole in the floor.
Would you have wanted to have a mother live like this until the baby was
born...regardless of whether it were put up for adoption?

Fact 1;
There will be abortions, legal or not, there always have been.  There is no
possible way to enforce the illegality of abortion.  Just make them safer.

Fact 2;
It is a moral issue and only individuals make that decision.  You can't
force morality on people who don't want it.

Fact 3;
The world is not the same place as 2000 years ago, or even 100 years ago.
The population is increasing too fast, look at China, learn a lesson.

Fact 4;
Knowledge is needed to make your own decision, for or against abortion.


FINAL WORDS: 
The morality of a society might best be defined by the way the poor
are treated.  Let's give more choices to people, encourage everyone to think
for themselves and do the 'right' thing.


Kathy Salazar