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