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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Beyond "Prolife" Smugness: The Consequences They Never Thought of
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 14:22:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 14:22:52 1984
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> What seems singularly absent from all the discussion of
> abortion is any mention of *children,* the invitable result of
> non-aborted pregnancies. 

	Good point.

	The other day Ann Landers or Dear Abby had an article that said
40% of the children of teen-agers are deformed, retarded, or otherwise
messed up,  because of lack of pre-natal care, junk food, cigarettes
and drugs, and the fact that many of the mothers are children themselves
and are not biologically equipped to give birth.  

	Instead of pro-life maybe the anti-abortion people should
call themselves "pro-suffering."  Isn't there some part of Christianity
that makes suffering a good thing?  That would explain it. 
-- 
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