Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site vaxwaller.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!zehntel!varian!vaxwaller!susan From: susan@vaxwaller.UUCP (Susan Finkelman) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <283@vaxwaller.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 18:06:02 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxwalle.283 Posted: Wed Jun 19 18:06:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:28:12 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 50 From Article 1495: > I realize I'm in for interesting and thought provoking replys, but > I welcome them all and am curious as to your thoughts! One objection I > will not even address is " She " or " they cannot handle the > responsibility of raising a child!" Who had the big enough responsibility > to create the child? !!!! WARNING: The following response is not an argument for or against abortion. Nor is it a statistically accurate or scientifically controlled study. !!!! I can't believe that you won't even listen to the issue of the ability to raise a child. Listen, just listen, for a second, before you decide that you can disregard such an objection (you, who will not ever face such a choice) I know seven women who have ended unwanted pregnancies by abortion. After your posting annoyed me, I used it as an excuse to get in touch, and I asked the following: When you were pregnant, did the biological father offer to help you have and raise the child? Yes - 1, No - 6 Was he for or against your abortion? For - 7 Against - 0. Did he have sufficient resources at the time that he would have been able to pay a decent amount of child support if you had had the baby? (it being difficult to get blood out of a turnip...) Yes - 2 No - 5 Did you have sufficient resources that you would have been able to have the baby alone and provide for it decently? Yes -1 No - 6 Money is indeed part of the convience issue. Have you ever considered raising a kid on welfare, which is what you do if you have no skills and no rich parents? You may not think it relevant, but some people do. And what about the men? You ask who was responsible? Well, in this culture it is often a young, unskilled woman. The men often disappear. I think it is both wrong and heartbreaking, but that is the way it is. Susan Finkelman, Varian, 2700 Mitchell Dr, Walnut Creek, Ca. 94598 {zehntel,amd,fortune,resonex,rtech}!varian!susan