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

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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.