From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!mwolf Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: Abortion free for the asking Article-I.D.: yale-com.912 Posted: Thu Feb 17 10:22:52 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 21:07:09 1983 References: watmath.4542 If a person is poor enough that the government is paying for the rest of her health care, then she is very unlikely to have money to spare to pay for an abortion. Since very few doctors will perform and abortion without getting paid, this means that, by refusing to pay for the abortion, the govenment is preventing the person from having one. If those who can afford it are allowed to have abortions and those who cannot afford it are prevented, we have two moralities. Since all people should be equal in the eyes of the law, I think that this is a bad thing. I am not necessarily arguing that women should or should not be allowed to have abortions. I just think that the rules should be the same for all women, instead of having one rule for people who pay for their own health- care and a different rule for those who cannot. -Mary-Anne Wolf