Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: To Barry Shein Message-ID: <420@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 15:06:43 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.420 Posted: Mon Mar 4 15:06:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:29:06 EST References: <791@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA Lines: 25 [..............] > o 98% of all abortions are done because, in the words of >Dr. Irvin Cushner, an abortion supporter, the women undergoing abortions >"do not wish to be pregnant at this time." Dr. Cushner, of the UCLA Medical >School, testified before a 1981 Senate subcommittee that only 1% of abortions >are performed because of any physical health problems of the mother. The >May/June 1984 issue of FAMILY PLANNING PERSPECTIVES, a journal affiliated >with Planned Parenthood, states that "most abortions have no strictly >medical indication." >Ken Arndt To me, this indicates that the root of the 'pro-life' problem is centered around 'unwanted' or 'untimely' pregnancies. Abortion is the symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. If the pro-life people would help counsel women before they get pregnant so that they wouldn't get into situations where they wanted an abortion, then I as a pro-choicer would have no problems with them. But, they prefer to wait until the problem has already gotten out of hand, and THEN tirade about it. As far as I'm concerned, by that time, it's too late, they've missed the boat. No woman figures on abortion as a 'birth control' BEFORE she gets pregnant. Keith Doyle {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd "You'll PAY to know what you REALLY think!"