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From: susan@madvax.UUCP (Susan Finkelman)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: It's still mine
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 10:52:12 EDT
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> 
> Planned or unplanned, wanted or unwanted, one does not get an abortion
> without destroying more than is hers to begin with.  The mother has
> a *responsibility* toward her unborn child, as well as to her new-born
> infant, her youngster, her teenager, her grown child.  Claiming that
> death is somehow preferable is a sad statement indeed.  Can there be
> such a thing as a suicide which nobody mourns?
> 
> Yes, your body is your own.  (Well, it's on loan to you ...)  But your
> child's body is NOT.
> 
> Paul D. Obeda

(I am not a cultural anthropologist) 

It is my understanding that there are cultures where neither abortion
nor suicide are seen with the horror that so many of the men of the
net seem to feel.  

  Susan Finkelman
	{zehntel,amd,fortune,resonex,rtech}!varian!susan