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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
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 15:06:43 1985
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>               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
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