From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekmdp!janetr Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: more women Article-I.D.: tekmdp.1750 Posted: Thu Feb 3 08:57:34 1983 Received: Sun Feb 6 08:18:06 1983 I agree with Bill Ricker--I'd like to move away from the political flaming and hear from people who are willing to discuss more personal aspects of "women's issues." I have a question about personal experiences of abortion. In particular, has anyone out there it netland gone through the experience of deciding whether to abort following amniocentesis? Amnio is put forth in the popular press as a *simple* procedure to women who are considering pregnancy after age 35. But I wonder how simple it would be to deal with the emotional effects of aborting a very much wanted but very ill baby. I also wonder what kind of denial is going on that the media puts forth the good news (now you don't have to have a Downs Syndrome baby if you don't want one) without talking about the bad (the test results aren't known until almost the fifth month of pregnancy, and the only method of abortion available is induced labor at a time when you will already have felt the baby move). I haven't seen anything in the media dealing with this, and I wonder if any of you have thought about it or dealt with it directly. No flames or moral indignation, please.