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To: JohnM who wrote (10264)	1/29/2006 3:27:30 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541752

I completely agree with you that it is a hollow right. I think it's terrible for poor women to bear the brunt of the conservative's infatuation with limiting the choice of women to end their pregnancies if they choose to. The data on the poverty of women with children is out there. It's clear that condemning poor women to bear children will most certainly keep them trapped in poverty. I know that the paternal model driving conservatism has a punishment component- and they feel that women who make "choices" to have sex, should not "escape" the consequences, but I think the whole notion of punishing women for sex by comdemning them to bear children is sick and twisted- but much about our society is sick and twsited, so no surprise there. I am also aware that there are many people who religiously believe bundles of cells have a God given right to exist. I've got no problem with people believing anything they want to, based on the commands of any invisible deity, but I do not think the beliefs should be inflcited on us in by the state via coercive laws, or obstructions of our liberty- since so far we claim to be a secular country.