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APPENDIX A. TALK.ABORTION: AUGUST 9, 1994 160<br />

>It would make <strong>the</strong>m realize that <strong>the</strong>re are alternatives.<br />

How cannot <strong>the</strong>y realize it now? Are you implying that women are stupid.<br />

> I have spoken<br />

>to several women who have had abortions.<br />

>choice. Pretty ironic, eh?<br />

They all said <strong>the</strong>y had no<br />

So if you ban abortion, <strong>the</strong>y do not have even that choice.<br />

> They did have choices, but because abortion<br />

>is legal, <strong>the</strong>ir parents, boyfriends, and abortion counsellors convinced<br />

><strong>the</strong>m this was <strong>the</strong> only alternative.<br />

So we must ban <strong>the</strong> abortion to protect <strong>the</strong> women from <strong>the</strong>se kind of<br />

things. What should we ban next. Working outside of home because even<br />

working women could have to take care of <strong>the</strong> home work. (Don’t laugh,<br />

here it is illegal for women to work at night. They are protected from<br />

this because it was viewed that that could not have enough rest during<br />

<strong>the</strong> day as <strong>the</strong>y had to take care of children.)<br />

><br />

>It might encourage <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>rs of <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

>children to live up to <strong>the</strong>ir obligations.<br />

Why should <strong>the</strong>re be any encouraging, when <strong>the</strong> child support laws can be<br />

enforced with force. I do not see why all women should give <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

rights just so that men would be more kind to some women. Women are not<br />

pets.<br />

> Legal abortions make it easy<br />

>for men to abrogate <strong>the</strong>ir responsibilities. All <strong>the</strong>y have to say is<br />

>that <strong>the</strong>y tried to convince <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r of <strong>the</strong>ir children to have<br />

>an abortion. If she doesn’t, <strong>the</strong> man can say he tried to make her<br />

>see reason. He feels he has done his duty and can now walk away. Do<br />

>you think it’s any accident that illegitimacy rates have skyrocketed<br />

>since 1973?<br />

No necessarily. Currently it is much more acceptable to just live<br />

toge<strong>the</strong>r without marriage. At least here most of so called illegitimate<br />

children are born to such couples. The division between legitimate and<br />

illegitimate is simply obsolete.<br />

Also as illegitimacy is not so great stigma today, some women may choose<br />

to have a child when <strong>the</strong>y are not married.<br />

><br />

><br />

>--<br />

>=====================================================================<br />

>Robert Huck<br />

rohuck@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu<br />

>"That’s 6-4-3 if you’re scoring at home and even if you’re by yourself."<br />

> Keith Olbermann<br />

Osmo

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