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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
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 11:34:52 1984
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>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
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