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To: Suma who wrote (109250)	4/18/2009 3:30:08 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 540830

Suma, nice post and eloquently put. As a man, I suppose it's difficult for me to put myself in the same frame of mind as you during the girls treatment by the abortionist. It just seems easier to me to have the baby and give it up for adoption if you don't want it. Why put up with being abused, where you have to basically sell your body? I also think the movie is somewhat manipulative to have a plot where it's "whoops, one slip up from the guy and you're pregnant". Also, where is her responsibility? Pills are available just about everywhere these days and they're relatively inexpensive. Even in Bulgaria. The moral equivalence of life vs an inconvenience or struggle just don't add up to me. I've long thought when a fetus is able to survive on it's own outside the womb, no one has the right to kill the human being. Obviously, the timing of that event is a moving target as medical science advances. Of course, if the mothers life is in serious danger, the option should be available. That's extremely rare these days with late term abortions. I really don't understand a group like Planned Parenthood that supports partial birth abortion though. That's clearly killing a viable baby. So, I can understand why people feel outraged when they're present during thoughtful discussions of teenage pregnancy. Until the group modifies it's position, they're nothing more than a radical fringe group far outside the mainstream of public opinion. And if some teacher or nurse from school takes my teenager daughter to an abortion clinic without consulting either myself or my wife, I would probably go ballistic on them.