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