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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (16414)	1/23/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Couldn't you do some sort of lay-away plan for art you really love? Or maybe look at your spending and see if there is something you could cut out for awhile and buy a piece of art? I know that when we started buying art we were willing to really cut back on other luxuries, and even necessities, in order to have all that beauty to look at every day when we woke up. According to surveys, most Americans agree that abortion is murder, but tolerate it up to a certain point because of several other factors, including memories of fatal, back-alley abortions before it was legal. My own stand is definitely politically incorrect for an otherwise politically moderate woman of my generation, because while I believe that abortion up to about twelve weeks is probably a necessary evil for many reasons--including the ultimate welfare of unwanted children who are born and then neglected and abused, and I also understand why women with seriously deformed children would have abortions after that--I have difficulty supporting partial-birth abortions for healthy fetuses unless the mother's life is in danger, and am also grossed out by late-term abortions where the healthy, viable fetus is cut into pieces alive in the womb and then pulled out bit by bit. In fact, I think that support of such late-term abortions actually makes it more likely that abortion law will be more severely limited in this society, and falls right into the positions of the far right, because these abortions are hard to defend. I guess my own personal opinions make me something less than a full feminist, but I agonize about this part of the feminist political plank anyway because fighting for the right to kill viable healthy fetuses is to me anti-life, which is antithetical to what is so powerful and loving about women--their capacity to bear and nurture new life. Sorry, I think I drank too much strong tea or something!!