Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!grkermit!chris From: chris@grkermit.UUCP (Chris Hibbert) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics Subject: Re: Abortion is three issues, not one. Message-ID: <482@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 18:02:28 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.482 Posted: Wed Jul 6 18:02:28 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 10:46:45 EDT References: <415@umcp-cs.UUCP> <5475@watmath.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 21 You forgot to mention the most commonly excluded issue: If abortion is to be allowed, do we have to assume that even those who find it abhorrent must pay for (through medicare and medicaid) abortions for women who want them? For the moment I'd like to leave out the issue of life-threatening pregnancies which seem to properly (insofar as anything in medicare and medicaid are proper) fall in the province of a medical welfare (it's not insurance) scheme. Almost all of the "pro-choice" people offend me by claiming that there is a "right to have an abortion" which includes someone else paying for it. If there is any such right, it, like the right to own property only means the right to get it in a way that doesn't infringe other's rights. There are lots of organizations (like Planned Parenthood) that are willing to provide inexpensive abortions to those who can't afford a few days in a hospital. decvax!genrad!grkermit!chris allegra!linus!genrad!grkermit!chris harpo!eagle!mit-vax!grkermit!chris