Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney From: courtney@hp-pcd.UUCP (Courtney Loomis) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Abortion, another view. - (nf) Message-ID: <1424@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 03:33:43 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1424 Posted: Thu Jul 28 03:33:43 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Jul-83 05:53:07 EDT Sender: netnews@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR Lines: 30 #R:teltone:-16800:hp-pcd:17400026:000:1248 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