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To: epicure who wrote (67222)	12/18/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I just think abortion is very much more complicated, X. It seems from the research I have read that abortion is an ancient practice and a part of nature--women, and many female animals, who resorb their young, have some mechanism for not bringing young into the world whom they cannot support and nurture to a state of independence. There was a plant which grew on, um Crete, I believe 2000 years ago that is totally extinct now because of the huge demand of it as an abortificant. I would never get an abortion, but support it very reluctantly because I think unwanted, neglected and abused children suffer much more than fetuses aborted in the first trimester of pregnancy. And I believe it must be the mother's decision, no one else's. Having said that, I think that birth control and good sex education should be stressed much more, since I would much rather that a pregnancy was prevented than interrupted. I see my positions on spanking and abortion as a part of the same basic philosophy of not hurting children. I also think the research that posits that a whole generation of criminals-to-be who would have been born in the 1970's were instead aborted. This makes sense in a way because unwanted children tend to be troubled children, and troubled children tend to be grow up to be criminals. However, I realize this research was not conclusive.