Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!spp1!johnston From: johnston@spp1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: An abortion story Message-ID: <127@spp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 11:59:18 EST Article-I.D.: spp1.127 Posted: Tue Dec 4 11:59:18 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:40:38 EST References: <44@tove.UUCP> <1092@ut-ngp.UUCP>, <46@tove.UUCP> <10082@watmath.UUCP> Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 25 > > >Gerald Owens is right, by the way, in saying that the pro-life > >movement is waking up to providing help to women in crisis due to > >pregnancy. I work on a coalition for Pregnancy Assistance which > >will be placing women in the private homes of people willing to open > >their homes in order to help a woman. This is very important to me > >because merely telling a woman that she should not get an abortion is > >*not* enough! > >-- > > -Liz Allen > > I fail to see how this will help more than a few people. How many women > would actually WANT to live in someone else's home, just because they are > having a baby? > > Sophie Quigley > ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley Its not a question of wanting to live in another's home. In some cases, there is no choice. A very brave young woman (15 years old) stayed with us one winter to have her baby and see it successfully adopted because her family wanted nothing to do with her or the child yet she felt responsible for its life. Mike Johnston