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To: JDN who wrote (559660)	4/4/2004 12:17:22 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I know many people who have had early abortions, and none have been damaged. Sad, but not damaged, because they had abortions for good reason. People who use abortion as birth control are so incomprehensible to me on many levels that I can't help but hope they never have any children at all. As for not paying with your taxes for what you morally disapprove, it's an interesting proposal. Would this principle apply only to abortion? Would, for example, absolutist pacifists be exempted from taxes during war? Throughout history, there have been pacifists so absolute on the matter of their unwillingness to fund killing under any circumstances that they lived in absolute poverty so as not to have to pay taxes. Others have engaged in tax "refusal," and gone to prison. They might feel it odd that some people's morality is more important than theirs. As to "it's not about pain," if you don't perceive that the consciousness, sentiency, of an embryo is highly important in this discussion, you don't have much to contribute to it, imho.

To: JDN who wrote (559660)	4/4/2004 2:56:41 PM
From: blue red	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I CANNOT IMAGIN how a human being can destroy their OWN FLESH AND BLOOD and not suffer severe mental stress and anxiety for the rest of their life. It's true nevertheless. Consider that most abortions occur very early, when there is an embryo, but no baby. Repeated studies show that the vast majority of abortion patients - well over 70% - mainly feel relief, although they may feel sad. Even women with anti-abortion convictions feel relief more than anything. Almost nobody is crippled with grief, and studies have found that the few who are had mental problems to begin with. At the very LEAST I do NOT believe it should be OUR GOVERNMENTS policy to support Abortion nor pay for it. Abortion to me is a spiritual and moral decision that an individual should have to decide upon with no encouragement by Government. Right, and that was the intent of Roe v. Wade. The government pays for no abortion. But it does not stay out of the argument, as it should, with Congress and the Administration thundering against it and passing legislation to undermine Roe v. Wade.