Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <728@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 15:35:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.728 Posted: Mon Jul 1 15:35:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:45:22 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP>, <710@ihlpg.UUCP> <983@homxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 28 > > > >Come on. You didn't answer the question. Every freedom carries > >responsibility with it. If you want the freedom, you had best be ready for > >the responsibility. > > > > Jean Marie Diaz > > The above "argument" begs the issue of who is to decide what ^^^ > responsibilities I should carry, You do! With the availability of contraceptives, you can't tell me that in the *majority* (I'm highlighting this for a reason, as I don't want to get flamed over the .01% of contraceptive failures, or the equally small number of pregnancies that result from rape) of abortions, anyone but *you* made you get pregnant. > or for that matter what constitutes a > responsibility. As has been mentioned before, not everyone considers > carrying a fetus to term and then paying $200,000+ to raise it and send > it to school, not to mention putting in the time involved in raising it, > a responsibility. So (as I'm sure has been pointed out *lots* of times before) why don't you skip all the grief and trouble of taking responsibility for the results of your own actions and give the child up for adoption? Jean Marie Diaz