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From: David Smallberg
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Birth control by ABORTION
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Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 05:23:04 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 20 05:23:04 1984
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>> I suggest that abortion is a form of birth control for a
>> lot of people!!
> Really? On what basis?
Check out the Soviet Union, Japan, and China, for example. In the first two,
at least, the Pill is illegal (their versions of the FDA don't like the
side effects for many women), and I think some other birth control methods
are not used as much as here. I've read that the incidence of abortion in
those countries is fairly high, and that it IS in fact regarded as one method
of birth control.
>> I suggest that abortion is a form of birth control for a
>> lot of people!!
So what? I've asked this before, but no one else seems to know either:
What are the abortion attitudes of non-Christian cultures, such as Japan
or China? How many of the emotional arguments presented in net.abortion
would be viewed as irrelevant? The quoted statement, for example, is
apparently supposed to shock people into thinking "Really! That's awful!";
would a Japanese say "Yes, that's obvious. I don't understand why you put in
the double exclamation points, though."?
-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das