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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: About: Avoiding hasty abortion decisions
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 11:39:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 11:39:02 1984
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I'm opposed to requiring another waiting period (what do
you think happens after the woman finds out she's pregnant,
have an abortion that afternoon???) for abortions because of the
record of some of the anti-abortion people in the area of
Ohio I was born in.   These folks, at least until three years ago,
would get the names of people who were to have abortions from
sympathetic doctors  and then going
to talk to these people, to try to "SAVE" them.  They would 
rave about "hellfire", and such, and show the possible mother
bloody pictures of aborted fetuses (not clinical pictures,
but deliberately sensationalized pictures) and tell them
horror stories about what happens to mothers who have
abortions .

(Needless to say, they didn't discuss the risks of pregnancies,
which are considerably higher, but then again, why am I surprised?)

The results of these tactics, in human terms, was atrocious.
I suspect the suicide rate they caused would make both
abortion and pregnancy look safe by comparison, and I do
know that the percentage of folks that they drove to psychological
collapse was around 25%.  

I've seen similar techniques used (although much less blatantly and
offensively) where I went to college, and I've heard of them,
although I haven't talked to victims of the same, in New Jersey,
so it appears that the tactics aren't limited to one geographical 
area.

Enough.  (Now you see one of the many reasons that I suspect the
intentions and abilities of many "pro-lifer"'s.)
-- 
TEDDY BEARS ARE NICER THAN PEOPLE--HUG YOURS TODAY!
(If you go out in the woods today ... )

(allegra,harpo,ulysses)!rabbit!jj