Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: re: when does life begin Message-ID: <10081@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 11:34:52 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10081 Posted: Fri Nov 30 11:34:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 05:58:45 EST References: <2153@stolaf.UUCP>, <122@spp1.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 32 >A pregnant woman provides no more for a fetus than a new mother. Warmth >and protection are provided in one case by a house, crib, blankets, and >holding and in the other case by a sealed, cushioned sac filled with a >warm amniotic fluid. Food is provided for infants by a bottle or breast and >in uterine, by the woman's blood as a nutrient carrier. Oxygen is free for >infants since its in the air. Exposure to air would be detrimental to the >fetus, thus the enclosed sac, but again the mother's blood provides this >essential need. What a wonderful way to look at pregnancy!! just a sealed cushioned sac! it is all so clean, easy and carefree!! a woman who refuse to provide such an essential service, which is so easy for her to give, must obvioulsy be a monster! what a nice way of looking at the way from the fetus' point of view! maybe the fetus only receives "warmth and protection" from the woman's body, and nutrients through her blood, but the mother ends up giving much more: the work that is needed for her body to accomodate another being inside it, and to transform food into the nutrients that the fetus will receive. A lot of this work results in quite a bit of misconfort for the woman involved. Women are NOT PASSIVE recipients in which little babies grow!!!!! Their bodies do a LOT of WORK for the 9 months during which it is providing what the fetus needs to develop. Of course, this doesn't even start to talk about other things that women that women give for pregnancy. These things obviously vary greatly from woman to woman, but at best can be nothing, and at worst, a great loss of mobility and economic comfort (at a time when if money is certainly needed!) or loss of opportunities to do other things they might prefer to do, and even some times great physical discomforts. Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley