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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (15973)	11/25/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I am very cheap. I don't even want to pay for people who are already born. I cut needy children a little more slack because I figure it is cheaper in the long run to give them a good start so there exists at least the possibility they will not be a drag on the rest of us when they grow up. But I am not a hypocrite. I profess to being neither "Christian" nor charitable. And those who do should remember that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. As I do not plan on going to heaven this is not a problem for me, but for those of you who have this in mind as your destination best you give everything ye have to the poor.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (15973)	11/25/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 67261

I'd suggest that more than money is at stake here. Let's take a 17-year-old from a nice family who's bound for college on a scholarship. Let's further say she runs afoul of her fertility. She really really doesn't want this child, not now. The issue isn't money (unless it's enough money for a full-time nanny!) but time. A college girl needs to focus entirely on her studies in order to get the sort of degree and GPA that makes for a career. Having a child without a nanny would take all sorts of time - and torpedo any try at a higher education. An abortion would be an obvious choice here. The alternative would be for some agency, ideally a private foundation run by the moral or conscientous objectors to the availability of abortion - to guarantee adoptive placement in a good home. Then our high school senior gets her life back - for the price of an unwanted and very humbling pregnancy. betcha she won't engage in risk behavior again... until she wants a child! Would this work?