Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.women,net.abortion Subject: Re: ERA and abortion Message-ID: <1030@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 09:19:12 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1030 Posted: Wed Oct 10 09:19:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 07:25:25 EDT References: <372@uwmacc.UUCP>, <499@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 17 a I have to disagree somewhat with Mike when he suggests that the poor are left out of the abortion programs. Here in the New York area, just recently, it was found that the poor were more inclined to carry a pregnancy to birth than to accept abortion, even if it were paid for. The cost of births is much greater than those for abortion, so that argument does not seem vital, re. the poor can't afford abortions, since both are paid through public welfare. I found it interesting, to change the subject, that the killing of a fetus by bringing bodily harm to a pregnant woman is considered murder in California. If this is so, how can abortion not be murder? T C.. Wheeler