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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (Chuck Jones MMOCS)
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Subject: Re: punishment & abortion (cont.) (moral)
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 11:23:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 11:23:12 1984
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Paul,

	I yield you your right to your opinion, but I really am
amazed that you would not allow a women to have an abortion after a
rape that caused a pregnancy!  I do agree with you that the ultimate
answer is to prevent rape.  I do object, however, to your comment
that pro-choice people think that abortion is "part of the answer". 
(Apparently part of the answer to the question of rape.)  Let's not
put words in the pro-choicer's mouths.  Abortions after the fact
will obviously not do anything to prevent rape.

	However, to condemn a woman to carry the fetus of a rapist??!
To make carry a constant reminder of the assault she suffered?  To
make her have the baby of a man who committed the ultimate violation
of her person and her spirit?  A rape must be the hardest of traumas
to overcome, even if the woman was not seriously harmed.  And you
really believe that it is better for her to have this baby, and ruin
here life, and the child's, than to have an abortion?  (Yes I said
ruin the child's.  I can't imagine that most woman could really ever
love this child, and I can't imagine that they would treat their
body properly during pregnancy (probably damaging the child), if
they could even withstand it mentally.  And, yes I believe that this
kind of stress will damage the fetus.)

	I'm kind of in the middle on the rest of the issues, but of
this I'm sure; no woman should be forced to bear her rapist's child.
This is the ultimate punishment of the ultimate victim.

...we13!ll1!cej			Chuck Jones