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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (17311)	12/4/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

About the only reasonable application for a drug like RU-486 is rape or incest. The problem with the incest victim is that the crime most likely will not be reported until the efficacy of RU-486 is well past. That makes you a real moderate on the subject, as you more fully explain later, bp. There are equivalent things currently available, though not widely known. As with other birth control options, some people don't want the alternatives more widely known, and others are afraid to make them more widely know for fear of the first group. Honesty as usual on the issue. I think the victim should have full disclosure about the abortion procedure and it's possible complications (psychololgical and physical) AND full disclosure on carrying the pregnancy full term and it's possible complications, whether the baby is adopted or not. Two points. The "psychogical complication" line is somewhat disputed, there are studies that show that what is mainly felt, psychologically, is relief. On the adoption option, the current numbers are 1.4 million vs. .1 million, or thereabouts. Abortion on demand a scourge on this country, but we need to show compassion for women who are truly victims or if their health is truly imperiled by a pregnancy. That's a good moderate compromise position, he notes dryly. Feel free to advocate it politically, William Kristol thinks it should be the centerpiece of Republican ideology. Nobody likes abortion in principle, in practice, it's a can of worms that many people don't want to reopen past battles on. The moral reformation movement disagrees, they can press forward politically as they wish.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (17311)	12/4/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 67261

I'm not even going to copy your post. Let people scroll back. Now if there were only more people that would take your common sense approach rather than the hysterical rhetoric being thrown around like so much equine feces at the county fair we'd be better off as a country. Instead we get this feeble whine about how we should either be like France or the Vatican. <rolling eyes>

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (17311)	12/4/1998 7:05:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 67261

Well said, Betty.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (17311)	12/4/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

I think the child and her guardians should be given a choice as to how they would handle the pregnancy, and a horrific choice it will be. Either choice has lifelong implications for the victim and therefore I think as a society we should do the utmost to not add to the victim's trauma. I think the victim should have full disclosure about the abortion procedure and it's possible complications (psychololgical and physical) AND full disclosure on carrying the pregnancy full term and it's possible complications, whether the baby is adopted or not. Well... All fine and dandy. But the problem is really this -- what will happen if, as I expect, in the vast majority of cases, the child opts for abortion? Do you really think the RR will keep quiet then?