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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Equal access to pleasure
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 09:26:52 EDT
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> > ME
> Matt Rosenblatt
> >					 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? 
> 
> 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.

No. Biological inequality is not an injustice. Social policy
can be unjust. The efforts of the Government to track down fathers
are simply insufficient or ineffective; just look at the rise in
single parent families headed by women. Besides, when the parents both are
poor and barely able to support themselves, finding the father is not of
much help, is it? The fact, sir, is that unwanted pregnancies and children
have a cost, and that cost is borne by women, not as a consequence of
biology, but because of social policies. By seeking to remove what recourse
women have  to reduce such a cost, pro-lifers are increasing it. I
feel it is not surprising that most pro-lifers are male. At some
level, they know that the consequences of their advocacy will be paid
not by them, but by women. That, sir, is unfair, and unjust.

Marcel Simon