To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (209959 ) 12/14/2001 9:24:09 AM From: PROLIFE Respond to of 769670 There are those detractors who think it is absurd for me, a male, to talk about abortion as IMO they have bought into the lie that it is a woman's issue only. But, If you have ever read any of my old posts, you know that the ones I come down the hardest on are the males that sit back point fingers and scream "women's choice, women's choice" It is my contention that they are hiding behind that "choice" word for their own convenience. The article agrees it seems. Here is a quote from the article:' Efforts to establish abortion as a legitimate solution to the problems of being a woman in a male-dominated society surrender women to pregnancy discrimination. Those feminists who demand the right to abortion concede the notion that a pregnant woman is inferior to a non- pregnant one. They admit that pregnancy and motherhood are incompatible to being a fully functioning adult, and that an unencumbered, unattached male is the model for success. By settling for abortion instead of working for the social changes that would make it possible to combine children and career, pro-abortion feminists have agreed to participate in a man's world under a man's terms. They have betrayed the majority of working women - who want to have children. Abortion allows men to escape responsibility for their own sexual behavior. A man whose child is aborted is relieved of the requirement that he support his children. It is not surprising that the Playboy Foundation is a major supporter of abortion rights, because abortion is a natural consequence of the Playboy's ideal of uncommitted, anonymous sex without consequences. Women can be reduced to the status of a consumer item, which if "broken" by pregnancy can be "fixed" by abortion.' What do you think? Dan