> At 03:02 PM 10/10/2002 -0400, Dennis wrote:
> >Oh, by the way, though I am pro-choice, I am anti-abortion.
> A living thing
> >_is_ snuffed out. And that stat from Russia is quite
> disturbing if true.
>
> It's not a living thing apart from its mother. I don't
> exactly celebrate
> the right to abortion and, thank god, I've never had to have
> one...but
> given that this decision will be made by someone, I think
> right now the
> only person who has the right to make it is the mother.
>
> If a woman has no rights over reproductive choice, she has no
> rights period.
>
> If you want to reduce abortions significantly, you need sex
> education and
> probably free contraceptives. My mother had sixteen abortions
> on someone's
> kitchen table (Romania:abortion illegal, contraceptives
> unavailable), and
> what that did to her is indescribable.
Thank you Joanna, I was hoping somebody would respond.
If I feel abortion is snuffing out a life, I promise I will not seek an abortion. Hopefully, Dennis will refrain too.
No way though would I try to prevent my wife or daughter from getting one if they chose to.
-- John K. Taber
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