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   "Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   than the birth of one more unwanted child."   
      
   Surely you don't mean this. The abortion clinincs would abort many more very   
   late term fetuses than one! I am an atheist, but I have much trouble with   
   very late term abortions.   
      
   Ron   
      
      
   "Ivan Gowch"  wrote in message   
   news:2ccssvo42fe8fpak1ffgqvdq44kq2v2eu8@4ax.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   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)