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   XPost: talk.philosophy.humanism   
   From: gowch@SPAMTHEENOThotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:58:59 -0000, Ron Peterson    
   wrote:   
      
   ==>In talk.philosophy.humanism Moorehead Johnson  wrote:   
   ==>> Ron Peterson  wrote in message news:...   
   ==>   
   ==>>> Do you think women that have abortions should be punished? If so, how?   
   ==>   
   ==>> Once Roe v. Wade is overturned, the criminal penalty for abortions, in   
   ==>> my opinion, should be directed towards the doctor, not the patient.  I   
   ==>> would let each state decide individually what that punishment should   
   ==>> be, based on prevailing community standards.   
   ==>   
   ==>In doing so, you would be punishing a woman by denying her a safe   
   ==>abortion.   
      
   		Besides, if the U.S. ever re-criminalizes abortion,   
   		American women seeking the procedure would   
   		simply take a ride across the border to Canada,   
   		where abortion is quite legal and absolutely   
   		certain to stay that way.   
      
   		They would flock across the border like the elderly   
   		folks do now to buy medicines, which the   
   		rapacious pharmaceutical companies have made   
   		unaffordable in the United Snakes.   
      
   		And, if such a situation were to arise, there would be   
   		residents of Canada -- me, included -- who would   
   		set up and/or contribute to a foundation to subsidize   
   		the costs of travel 	and the procedure itself for   
   		poor American women who would otherwise suffer   
   		discrimination.  (Wealthy women in the U.S. have   
   		always had access to abortion services.  It's only   
   		women of modest means who were forced into the   
   		arms of back-alley butchers.)   
      
   		In other words, no matter what the religious wackos   
   		manage to do in the U.S., American women will   
   		continue to abort their unwanted fetuses, and there   
   		is nothing whatsover the Bible-blasted nutcases can   
   		do about it.   
      
   		Something to think about, wackos, before you start   
   		messing with your Constitution in a completely futile   
   		effort. . . .   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   than the birth of one more unwanted child.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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