Comcast rejects antiwar ad

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at sun.com
Thu Jan 30 09:23:31 PST 2003


At 11:10 PM 01/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Just wondering, is there any country in which women lack this basic right,
>that is not a backward theocracy or an otherwise horrendous dictatorship?
>(In Hungary, I read somewhere once -- sorry not have better sourcing --
>after Ceaucescu fell, two rights were restored: the right to own a
>typewriter, and to have an abortion.)

Thanks Liza.

Yes, I visited Romania when the laws against abortion were in full force. -- I saw a lot of very unhappy pregnant women. This was the first time in my life that I saw such a thing. I was used to the U.S. where, for the most part, pregnancy was a cause for rejoycing. -- I was told that women who had had abortions that went wrong, would not be given treatment until they revealed the name of their doctors. Those who wouldn't were allowed to bleed to death. If they did, the doctors were sent to prison. -- Families were not able to care for what were called "Ceausescu" babies. Many wound up in institutions or sold in the West.

I have never in my life had an abortion and hope to die without having to have one. There is nothing to glorify about such a procedure. On the other hand, there is no one else to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term except the woman who must do it. No one.

Joanna



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