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From: courtney@hp-pcd.UUCP (Courtney Loomis)
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Subject: Re: Abortion, another view. - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 03:33:43 EDT
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hp-pcd!courtney    Jul 27 13:14:00 1983

It is noble to make graphic the biological realities of abortion so
that people can be aware of the act that the may choose to instigate.

I hope that those who are so vocal and righteous about the "unholiness"
of abortion are as equally vocal in response to:

     -the slaughter of dolphins and whales for the sake of COST-REDUCING
      perfumes and pet food...  intelligent, social, and feeling
      beings (as much or more so than a fetus).

     -the use of leg-hold traps...  a slow death of an agony that
      most humans can hardly imagine.

     -the use of scarce world resources to build arsenals beyond conceivable
      utility, instead of using those resources to feed the millions of
      people in this world who live in pain daily for lack of a basic meal.
      FACT  -hunger is a problem of resource distribution, not one of
      inability to produce the food.

The list could go on.  Perhaps what is needed is an abortion technique
which kills the fetus much more quickly and painlessly.  Abortion is a
recognition of the fact that humans are fragile and subject to error.
It is absurd to exacerbate the mistake of conceiving an unwanted child
by bringing such a pregnancy to term.

                        Courtney Loomis