Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uf-csg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!uf-csg!leo From: leo@uf-csg.UUCP (Leo Wilson ) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Pro-paternal input Message-ID: <136@uf-csg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:59:25 EDT Article-I.D.: uf-csg.136 Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:59:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:35:44 EDT Organization: CIS, University of Florida Lines: 27 This isn't precisely in line with what I've read thus far in this news group, but I feel that an input should be here. My input will hardly be unemotional. I am pro-choice *until* it's my baby who's life is being jeopardized. Unfortunately, I've never heard of any laws that require a father to make a choice about abortion. It's been my understanding that a woman has the final and only say about the life she carries within her regardless of the existance of another parent who would be perfectly willing to raise and be responsible for the baby. In this set of circumstances, is the fetus more human than a totally unwanted fetus? I am unable to view the abortion of my baby as anything other than murder. In this circumstance, what right has a mother to kill someone else's child? The issue becomes one of a few months of discomfort, not one of a lifetime of unwanted responsibility. As I stated at the beginning of this message, I am unable to comment with emotional detachement. This letter was prompted by an unpleasant experience, not by whimsical intellectualization. I hope I've encouraged some responses, especially from you other pro-choice people. -- From the mushroom patch @ uf-csg Leo Wilson allegra!akgua!uf-csg!leo