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.abortion
Subject: Reply to Ms Allen
Message-ID: <1089@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 16:56:29 EST
Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1089
Posted: Wed Dec  5 16:56:29 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:34:28 EST
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J.
Lines: 23

What seems to be missing from Ms Allen's long-winded article
supporting abortion is any mention or realization that 95% of
the *children* she is so stoutly consigning to oblivion do not
have the problems she so loudly decries.  As for the 5% that 
might, just might, fall into one of her neat pigeonholes of
dispair and poverty she describes for all children, what does
she suggest?  She suggests kill them.  Does this mean that we
can retroactively get rid of all handicapped children, children
born to poverty, abused children.  My that sounds neat and
orderly doesn't it?  We can wipe out suffering by just aborting
every child that even looks like it might be born into a
troubled life.  

That was the most specious and foolish argument I have seen so far.
And, to accuse pro-life people of not doing anything to try and
better the lives of troubled children is just a cheap shot and
complete falsehood.  If Ms Allen is so hung up on what might happen,
then I suggest she put her mind to rest and have her tubes tied.
That way she can stop worrying about her own possibilities and
perhaps stop writing such nonsensical generalities that every
unwanted pregnancy results in a child that is a loser at birth.
What a bunch of hogwash.
T. C. Wheeler