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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: It's really very simple
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Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 11:47:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 10 11:47:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs    Mar 10 08:47:00 1984

Until we have a perfect (infallible) means of contraception that works in
the real world (where sex is a biological necessity):

	-- You cannot take away the right of a woman (for example, my
	   wife) to undo an unwanted pregnancy.

	-- You cannot take away my right not to father a child I do
	   not want to raise.

Until you are able and willing to keep an aborted fetus alive AND care for
the resulting human being until its adulthood:

	-- You cannot take away our rights to abortion, even if the
	   fetus dies as a result.

	-- You have no right to call the act murder or pass laws
	   against it.

Rights of living persons must take priority over rights of fetuses until
there is no conflict between them, even if the results are distasteful to
you.  If you disagree with this, I will call you a dreamer, and hypocrite,
or both.  In any case, I will vigorously oppose your attempts to force
your morals on my life, since you are not willing to take the consequences.

Alan Silverstein

Postscript:  If you think adoption is the right way to take care of unwanted
children, you are simply ignorant, and should learn more about the subject.