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From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Society has already decided what a legal human being is
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 02:48:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 02:48:00 1984
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> > >From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
> > >Point 6: Abortion must be made legal.
> > 
> > I think it should be made both illegal and unnecessary.  Making it legal has
> > done little to make it unnecessary.
> > 
> > Paul Dubuc	cbscc!pmd
> 
> While point 6 is a totally unsubstantiated assertion, I think that the answer
> to it given above is ridiculous.  Making abortion illegal certainly has done
> nothing to make it unnecessary, all it has done is to make it dangerous for
> the mother.
> 
> So, Paul, how does one make abortion unnecessary?  the only fail-safe way I
> could think of would be to sterilise all women of child-bearing age, or
> better yet, kill them all.
> 
> Sophie Quigley
> ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley

If abortion is made totally illegal, we will be back to the old situation,
as Ms. Quigley asserts.  Do the so-called "prolifers" know what that was?
Backroom abortions done by dirty little old abortionists, reeking of alcohol,
and using dirty knitting needles.  Do the "prolifers" know what the leading
cause of death for young women was back in those days?  I give you one guess.
(Hint: It wasn't Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis.  It wasn't
periarteritis nodosa.  It wasn't even Cushing's syndrome.  I'm sure that
lots of you might guess that it was polycystic disease of the kidneys.  Well,
it wasn't that either.)  So far as I'm concerned, every death due to those
old backroom abortions was an execution by the state.  There were lots of 
deaths of that sort.  (Made your guess yet?)  For those fortunate ones who
made it through, the complications and sequelae were numerous, and not at all
fun.  I'll spare myself the descriptions.