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To: PROLIFE who wrote (517)	2/13/2001 7:59:46 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 948

I'm sure that was a random sample, right, PROLIFE? Will you be gracing us with other bits from the scientific and objective observers at www.afterabortion.org soon, PROLIFE? How about these "choice' political strategies? How To Put Compassion In Pro-Life Politics Wake up you politicians!! "Kinder and Gentler" Pro-Life Leader Calls for Pro-Woman/Pro-Life Republican Platform Beyond the Politics of Abortion Maybe they got W's PR firm to hide what they really want, just like Ashcroft did.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (517)	2/13/2001 10:30:05 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Respond to of 948

I keep looking in your posts for some element that I have overlooked, that would confirm I have misunderstood you, and really you are human. You can't possibly understand what you are saying. No one is that incapable of empathy, capable of justifying a position so inhuman and cruel. What kind of world would this be? What would you do with the pregnant rape/incest victim whose trauma is so aggravated by her condition that she seeks to abort herself via coat hanger even if she knowingly risks her own death? Or would prefer to swallow a shotgun than bear what seems a degrading parasite proof of the victory of the assailant? What if she seeks to anesthetize her emotional devastation through drugs or alcohol? What kind of monster would put her through that?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (517)	2/15/2001 12:52:49 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 948

I received the following message in a PM from an SI member who doesn't want to give her name. She gave me permission to post it here. I think she wanted you, especially, to know about her experience. "I can't post this, my story: After the rape, at gunpoint, I wanted to tear off my breasts lest people see me as a woman, with a vagina, a potential target, a cum rag, I fantasized about blowing away the scene of the crime, my forever infected vagina, with a shotgun, with the pellets moving clear though my head to wipe away the memories, i couldn't eat, because why feed an empty shell, air blew between my ears, I am tall and i lost 35#. I was a human skeleton. Like vultures men seemed even more attracted to that diminished me. I packed on weight to insulate me. I recoiled at any touch, i had nightmares bordering on delusions that parasites were riddling my body, I had a pregnancy test three times, and then had an IUD put in, and I kept it for three years after it needed removing, even when my husband, the only man I even vaguely trusted got a vasectomy. He hates and wanted to kill the rapist and I feared I would lose him. I had every resource available to me. I am still not quite right. Part of my recovery is knowing that I control my own vagina. I give it when I choose. I still have nightmares I'm pregnant with a monster. Some of these people would have made me carry that blob. I have no doubt I would have killed myself if forced to do so."