Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: It's really very simple Message-ID: <47700001@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 11:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcla.47700001 Posted: Sat Mar 10 11:47:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:30:32 EST Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #N:hpfcla:47700001:000:1148 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.