facts, science, muck and what ought to be done

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Fri Feb 4 11:08:39 PST 2000


On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:41:12 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> Why do men -- or even women like Catherine MacKinnon & Adrienne Rich for
that matter -- think that in a just society "where no pregnancy is a tragedy" there won't be any abortion?

Errr... I wasn't thinking that. I had neither MacKinnon or Rich in mind... but it is important to remember that having an abortion is a medical procedure, where things can and sometimes do go wrong. I would think that surgery, minor or major, shouldn't be a celebrated goal. Obviously safe abortions should be legal. But the decision to have an abortion, for many women (maybe only some, maybe most, I don't know), is a painful and traumatic decision (if one can call it a decision). It would be nice to avoid the trauma to begin with. I simply meant that we should seek to create a world where pregnancy isn't tragic, I didn't mean to imply that such a world would not include abortions.

ken



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