Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Society has already decided what a legal human being is Message-ID: <1550@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 02:48:00 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1550 Posted: Tue Dec 4 02:48:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:12:28 EST References: <215@looking.UUCP> <4230@cbscc.UUCP> <10134@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 33 > > >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.