Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Beyond Smugness: The Consequences Everyone Should Consider Message-ID: <10219@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 12:05:37 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10219 Posted: Sat Dec 8 12:05:37 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 02:44:56 EST References: <1545@pur-phy.UUCP> <308@bonnie.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 > Some interesting points are brought out in that posting, > but I think the argument that abortion prevents future suffering > is fundamentally flawed. Abortion also prevents a future geniuses > although, perhaps, to a lesser extent. Two wrongs do not make a right! > Child abuse, malnutrition, lousy school systems, etc. are > terrible things, but the cure, hopefully, is not more abortions. > These problems need to be solved separately, both with and without > state aid. The argument might be "fundamentally flawed" but the reality is that things being the way they are now, abortion DOES prevent future suffering (along with possible future genial discoveries). And the reality is also that, as was pointed by the original article, the people who are militantly anti-choice also do not do anything positive (short of cosmetic actions such as "pregnancy counselling") to really help prevent abortions, in a manner which would also respect the humanity of women. > Abortion may indeed be a practical solution to many problems, > both personal and social, but the essential issues are moral and > legal. The reality is that people who will probably never need abortions feel that it is right for them to specify to those who will what "essential issues" are. When you are faced with your own pregnancy, wanted or unwanted, the "essential issue" is not moral and legal, because it is not a issue, it is the reality of what will happen to your life and that of your child. > > Ed Hummel Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley