Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ll1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ll1!cej From: cej@ll1.UUCP (Chuck Jones MMOCS) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: punishment & abortion (cont.) (moral) Message-ID: <222@ll1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 11:23:12 EST Article-I.D.: ll1.222 Posted: Tue Mar 6 11:23:12 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 08:01:48 EST References: <7061@watmath.UUCP> <1902@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Chicago, Illinois Lines: 31 [] 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