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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
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Subject: Equal access to pleasure
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MARCEL SIMON writes:

>					 But why should not women have the
> right to reproductive freedom *and* guilt-free pleasurable sex. Men have
> the option to walk away after sex, never to be heard from again (some do.)
  . . .
> The essence of the abortion debate is tied to a feminist issue: are women
> going to have the control of their bodies and equal to sexual pleasure
> or is a male dominated society going to retain that control? 

As Mr. Simon points out, their is a biological inequality at work here.
As Mr. Pete Wilson says in article 1705, this inequality is not the fault
of the Government, or of men in general.  The Government, yea, even the
Government of the hated-in-Cambridge-Mass President Ronald Reagan, is
going to great lengths and expense to track down fathers and make them
pay, even to an extent that worries civil-libertarians.  (Thought your
tax return and Social Security number were "private," huh?  Big Brother
is after you, and he'll make you pay Momma to keep 2-year-old Junior
alive.  I mean, Junior is not a very "independent" human being, since
he would die in a week unless others, i.e., Father, are imposed upon
to feed and shelter him, but good old Uncle Sam wants even the dependent
to go on living.)

Mr. Simon here ably demonstrates the linkage between extreme feminism
and abortion.  If there is an inequality, that inequality is _per se_
an injustice.  And if the only way, or rather, what Mr. Simon believes
is the only way at tolerable cost, to establish equality involves the
messy and, to Matt Rosenblatt and many other men and women, abhorrent
destruction of little fetuses, that's just too bad.

Mr. Simon, equality is just one of many competing values in society.
I have heard abortion justified as a way of preventing great hardship
to the pregnant woman, and while I generally come down on the pro-life
side of the hardship-versus-fetus-killing argument, I have seen enough
of pregnancy, labor and delivery that I can understand why many people
come down on the pro-choice side.  But justifying abortion on the 
grounds of equal access to sexual pleasure is outrageous.

					-- Matt Rosenblatt