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Newsgroups: talk.abortion,can.politics
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Subject: Re: Responsibility (WAS Abortion, Caves, Galen, etc)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 23:05:18 PST

pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
> In article <1993Jan25.143139.21172@cdf.toronto.edu> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
> >In article <1993Jan25.030628.21585@julian.uwo.ca> larocqu@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JOHN LAROCQUE) writes:
> >>2. Go through with it and dump the baby at the door of some "anti-choice"
> >>activist or an impotent family who would kill for a baby.
> >
> >You are neglecting the impact on the woman's life of having to go through
> >an entire unwanted pregnancy.
> 
>   Oh, boo-hoo.  Better to go through with what many would consider murder?
>   Unless the woman was raped, she is partially responsible for being pregnant.
> Eventually, you have to accept responsibility for your own actions.
> 
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I'm a 42 year old, white, employed male. Somebody informed me the other
day that I am now the establishment. Frankly, I wouldn't have known had
it not been pointed out to me. I'm no longer, as I have believed, the
disenfranchised. If there is a responsibility that I think ought to be
shouldered, I have to stand up here and do it rather than carping about
the "system". I am the system.

The building of a highway is an acceptance of responsibility. There is
no shirking of responsibility in working together for some common goal.
I am willing to work together with the woman who wants an abortion.

I am willing to help out with the responsilbilites as a tax payer by
asking that my tax dollars be spent on abortions where unwanted pregnancy
has not been prevented. And by asking that no one who seeks an abortion
finds the process made more painful by state imposed obstacles. And
by asking that the woman be allowed to make the decision that she will
have to live with, rather than having those decisions imposed upon her.

This is my will not just because there are too many of us, but because
I can't stomach the idea of sentencing some woman to a course of child
bearing or child rearing for the "crime" of having sex.

I've seen women starving themselves, implanting themselves with deadly
silicon tits and inflated lips.. all sort of self destruction and self 
distortion in what appears to be an attempt to attract men. In this
context, having risky sex may be a mistake, sometimes even an insanity, 
but not a crime. I'm not willing to punish people who appear to me to be
ensnared in this cultural tsunami that inter-gender relations have become.

If I truly saw abortion as murder.. the taking of life, rather than
the prevention of life, I must admit, my thinking might be different.
In fact, I see the blocking of abortion as the depriving of a woman of
her freedom.

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