From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
Subject: Peter's confusion regarding WEBA and PAS
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:36:15 GMT
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In <nyikos.727654732@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>In <1993Jan16.052244.10215@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
>
>>In <C0x792.461@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
>>>If anyone is interested on the physical and/or psychological effects that
>>>abortion has on women, please skip the arguments about the physical and/or
>>>psychological effects that carrying the baby to term would have on women,
>>>contact WEBA, spelled out, I didn't make this up, Women Exploited By Abortion.
>
>>WEBA is an organization of women who blame their emotional problems on abortion.
>>If you look at the general population, you will see that abortion is not the
>>cause of these problems.  The facts were posted within the past couple of days;
>>if you missed them, I'd be happy to post them again.
>
>talk.abortion has lots of women who blame a lot of awful physical problems
>on pregnancy and childbirth.  If you look at the general population, you
>will see...
>
>just how twisted Larry Margolis's logic is up there.

All the medical evidence shows that post-abortion emotional problems are
a continuation of pre-existing symptoms.  Most of the physical problems
that have been documented for pregnancy and childbirth are a direct
result of that experience.

The people describing the possible physical problems do not suggest that
they will result in every case.  They state that the possibility is a
strong reason for keeping available the choice for a woman to not chance
it.  People who point to WEBA are generally attempting to restrict abortions.
Nobody here is arguing that the woman *not* have the choice to *not* have
an abortion.

It seems the only twisted logic here is yours, Peter, if you suggest that
these two are related.

>>(Did you know that a guy named Reardon wrote a book, and he polled members of
>>WEBA, and he found that 90% of them felt that they were Women Exploited By
>>Abortion?  And did you know that some people quote these figures as though
>>they are representative of the general population?  Really - I didn't make
>>this up.  There really are people this naive and foolish out there.)
>
>Did you know that there is a person named Larry Margolis, who asked me
>to mail him the foreword to _Aborted Women, Silent No More_ featuring
>NancyJo Mann living a hellish existence for years because of a saline abortion,

Actually, I think she lived a hellish existance because of her emotional
instability, not because of her abortion.

>How about sending me back the photocopy, Larry,
> so that I can send it to someone
>who takes the trouble to read it?

I did read it, Peter, as evidenced by the post in which I took you up on
your offer to demonstrate that what she did was a result only of the abortion.
--
Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion