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From: pdobeda@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: It's still mine
Message-ID: <12020@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 09:28:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 09:28:38 1986
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Reply-To: pdobeda@watnot.UUCP (Paul D. Obeda)
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In article <444@madvax.UUCP> susan@madvax.UUCP (Susan Finkelman) writes:
>That's not the issue.  I have never met, nor even heard of anyone
>who got pregnant so that she could get an abortion.  Once a woman
>is pregnant there is *NO* easy way out.  Planned or unplanned, 
>wanted or unwanted, if I am pregnant it's my body
>and my choice.  
>
>  Susan Finkelman
>	{zehntel,amd,fortune,resonex,rtech}!varian!susan

What ever happened to Portia's "Quality of Mercy" speech in Shakespeare's
"Merchant of Venice"?  You remember, Shylock wanted his pound of flesh,
which was his by right.  He had a contract, which had been broken, with
the penalty to be the extraction of a pound of flesh.  Portia granted that
he may exact his penalty, but not an ounce more than a pound, and no 
blood may be spilled.  Shylock owned a pound of flesh only, and rightfully
so, but he could not collect without taking more than was his, and so
he could not collect anything.

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