From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: Abortion free for the asking Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1375 Posted: Fri Feb 18 07:16:22 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 03:56:33 1983 References: yale-com.912 If a person is too poor to pay for an abortion, then by not paying for it the government may be passively preventing her from obtaining one, but it is not actively preventing her from obtaining an abortion in the same way it would be if it made abortions illegal. I favor the legality of abortion (though I think other birth control methods are preferable) but I don't see anything morally wrong with a state refusing to fund abortions. Speaking as a taxpayer, I expect that most women who can't afford an abortion can't afford to raise a child without financial assistance, so I would prefer to have abortions paid for by my taxes rather than paying three orders of magnitude more to raise unwanted children. I hope I'm not too badly burned by the resulting flames. -Jeffrey Soreff (hplabsb!soreff)