From: hsims@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: RE:  The March in D.C.
Organization: Clark University
Date: 10 APR 92 15:02:50 GMT


> bmc@mayo.edu (Bruce Cameron) writes:

|>lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:

|> 
|> We are trying to stop the termination of children.
|> 
|> 					Loren Finkelstein

>According to the figure provided by the Pro-life faction on
>the net there are 1,500,000 abortions each year.

>According to WHO, in the same period of time, 10,950,000
>children die of starvation.

>Even if we assume a large round off error, are you sure
>you are trying to solve the correct problem?  After all,
>you want to prevent the deaths of children.


Really, Loren, if you want to save children's lives there are many, many things 
you can do.  For example:

1.  Sell your computer.  Sell all your non-essential belongings.  Then use this 
    money to feed the children that are dying of starvation.  (Or did we 
    decide that starvation does not cause death?  I can't remember)
2.  Go to Ethiopia.  Teach people how to grow food so their children will not 
    starve.
3.  Go to Iraq.  Bring food and medical supplies.  Try to save some of the 
    children that will die as a result of US bombings.
4.  Instead of focusing on unwanted pregnancies, help women who are trying to 
    carry to term.  So many pregnancies end in miscarriage/stillbirth/etc.  
    You can prevent these children from being terminated by driving women with 
    high risk pregnancies to doctors, and paying for their prenatal care.  You 
    can also help by educating them about various risk factors.
5.  The city you are in now had over 4,000 homeless people last winter.  About 
    one third of them are children.  Now, this past winter none of these 
    children froze to death (adults weren't so lucky, but I know you're only 
    interested in the children).  Next winter, just to make sure none of these 
    children die,  open up your home to them.  Tell the local shelters that 
    you will house as many children as they can give you.
6.  Children die in abusive homes every year.  Become a foster parent.  Or call 
    up people with histories of child abuse, and offer to look after their 
    children whenever they aren't feeling up to it.
7.  Donate all those body parts you aren't using to children who will die 
    without transplants/transfusions.  You really don't need both kidneys.  
    And  you have plenty of extra bone-marrow.  You can prevent a child with   
    Leukemia from being "terminated".

Well, that's all I can think of for now.  Go to it, Loren, save those 
children!  What are you waiting for?  Children are dying right at this very 
moment while you are just sitting there at your computer.  You said you wanted 
to save children's lives, well now you know how, so get to work!

Or could it be that you really were not interested in saving children's lives?  
Is controlling women's bodies more what you had in mind?  This is getting kind 
of scary.  Us women have enough to worry about, with so many rapists and wife 
beaters already trying to control our bodies.  We don't need silly college 
dweebs like you trying to get into the same business.


                                          .... Heather.