From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: Re: Fed-up and healthy - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1508 Posted: Fri Feb 18 18:28:39 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 04:53:46 1983 #R:brunix:-142900:uiucdcs:31600003:000:876 uiucdcs!mcewan Feb 18 17:29:00 1983 A woman who wants an abortion is likely to be a bad parent, if forced to have a child. Therefore: She should have an abortion. Mia Shinbrot Microtel Pacific Research Vancouver, BC, Canada ... !ubc-vision!mprvaxa!shinbro ---------- The following is NOT an anti-abortion flame. This argument verges on circular reasoning. You have clearly made the unstated assumption that abortion is not murder (the central question in this debate) to show that abortion is "good". I can use the same argument to justify infanticide - if the mother of a 6 month old child wants to kill her baby, she's a bad mother. Therefore, she should kill her child. I've assumed that a 6 month old child has no right to life, but so what. My reasoning is perfectly clear to everyone who already agrees with me.