From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!dkw Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: Funding Abortion Article-I.D.: brunix.1552 Posted: Tue Feb 15 12:12:25 1983 Received: Fri Feb 18 06:57:15 1983 References: watmath.4533 The argument for state funding for abortion is not that the states should do everything anyone wants as watmath!cbostrum claims (in arguing that it is equivalent to "money on demand". Once the state agrees to pay for some group's (poor, old, or whatever) medical care it should pay for all such care. It is beyond me why (since abortion is legal) the state should be willing to pay for the costs of childbirth and not those of abortion. The only conceivable reason for this would be to increase the population, and the time when that was reasonable is long gone. ~v (oh well, the bad grammar stays) David Wittenberg Brown University Computer Science decvax!brunix!dkw