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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: An abortion story
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 13:49:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 13:49:19 1984
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>Because if society decides it has a vested interest in its unborn (as
>it has decided for the born), then it may decide that that the
>unborn's life is more important than the woman's resultant
>inconvenience and make abortion illegal.

>				-Liz Allen

Perhaps we should be careful in underestimating the effect of this
'inconvenience' on many people.  Career women, and in particular
those in the acting or modeling profession may find this 'inconvenience'
jeopardizes their job, as the 'cut-throat' nature of some of these
jobs may require 100% dedication in order to achieve success.  Certainly
there are instances of women in such positions that do become pregnant
and have babies, but many of these may already achieved a degree of success
that tends to 'secure' their job positions somewhat such that they can
afford this 'luxury'.  Also certainly, it may very well be unwise to allow
yourself to get pregnant if you are one of these career women, I'm sure
we all know about the best laid plans of mice & people.

Certain job positions in this world are 'high interest'.  Many people
find these jobs so highly desirable, that there is a 'glut' of prospective
employees.  Employers in this situation may find that the least little
'inconvenience' grounds for rejection or replacement.  Even in the computer
industry positions of this type exist, in particular, Computer Graphics,
and Computer Games.  Almost ALL non-managerial positions (and maybe some
of the managerial ones too) in the MEDIA, (T.V., Movies, Record industry,
etc.) tend to fall into this category.  To People determined to 'break in'
to these industries, pressure to succeed is high, while instances of
actual success is low.  Some people might even view their success/failure
in these areas as 'life or death'.

For many of these people, legislation of anti-abortion laws may constitute
a mere 'inconvenience', as they will arrange to have 'illegal' abortions
anyway.  In my estimation, the answer is 'education' to insure that 
abortion is not used as a 'casual' solution, and certainly 'gut-level'
films such as the abortion docuentary recently described can be helpful
in this area.  Legislation has a tendency to be largely ineffective,
and serves to promote unsafe 'black-market' situations of which we
have no shortage already.

Keith Doyle
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