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

To: HG who wrote (28356)	1/17/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If you haven't thought about the State controlling women's bodies than you haven't thought about the main problem with this issue. It is a conflict of rights between the mother, and a potential life. The mother's rights to her own body AND her genetic material are at issue. If you do not examine these rights you miss the main issue. If the you give the State the right to prevent abortion you give the State the right over women's bodies. If you give the State that right it means it can be used in insidious ways (as it has been in the past right here in the good ole US of A). You can have forced birth control, forced sterilization (which we have had) and even forced abortion. Because once the individual has no control she is at the mercy of whoever happens to have control over the State. I think that would make a mockery of our constitution.

To: HG who wrote (28356)	1/22/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<How does it matter if women get them late or early ? It only "feels" better to you if theu get them early. But is it any different whether the foetus is 1 inch or 12 inches ? Its all a psychological feel good.> Are you looking at this totally from the perspective of the mother? It certainly seems that from the experience of the fetus, it would be less painful to be aborted at one inch, when the soul, the feelings, the nerve endings, etc. have not developed so much and the baby is not generally as sentient. What on earth do you mean by "psychological feel good"? That it feels good to have an abortion? Or that we delude ourselves by saying there is a difference when a baby is being destroyed, if it is at two months or six? Have you thought of what late-term abortions do to cheapen reverence for life in the larger society?