Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!h-sc1!desjardins From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: What if? Message-ID: <524@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:45:41 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.524 Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:45:41 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 02:16:15 EDT References: <420@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 16 > > But you're placing the decision point at the wrong place -- it is possible > to avoid pregnancy, although you may have to go without sex to do so -- so > you can't say 'I couldn't prevent this pregnancy' -- the pregnancy is a > direct result of a CHOICE that you made to have sex. If you can break the > cause-and-effect relationship between sex and pregnancy, do so. But it is > not fair to say "my right to sex without consequences outweighs someone else's > right to live". > What about rape? This is a serious question: do you support abortion in the case of rape? If so, why are those unborn babies different from other unborn babies? If not, then choice has nothing to do with it, nor does responsibility. marie desjardins park