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)