Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: punishment & abortion (cont.) (moral) Message-ID: <755@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 16:34:53 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.755 Posted: Sat Mar 3 16:34:53 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 18:28:51 EST References: <7061@watmath.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 14 Sophie's analysis of the prohibition of abortion as punishment of the mother (and perhaps father) for irresponsible attitudes is very acute. Perhaps is should be extended, because the child whose birth is forced is equally being punished by being brought into the world unwanted and probably unloved. Such a child may well wish s/he had never been born. To be brought up unwanted can truly be a fate worse than death. So the punishment the "moralists" want to visit upon the unfortunate parents is probably the only true case of the sins of the fathers being visited upon the sons. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt