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   Moorehead Johnson wrote:   
   > Ivan Gowch  wrote   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > That may be true to an extent, but I think many more   
   > women would simply think twice about engaging in   
   > unprotected vaginal sex with someone rather than have to   
   > endure the inconvenience of traveling to a different   
   > country for an abortion.   
      
   In a perfect world, that would take care of some of it, but   
   shit happens, protections fail.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > Doubtful.  Roe v. Wade was brought about in the first   
   > place by a Texas woman who was pregnant and too lazy to   
   > get to California for a legal abortion.   
      
   Why do you have to lie to support your argument?   
      
   >> 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.)   
   >   
   >   
   > I haven't the slightest care in the world what Canadians   
   > do or don't do...Canada is not my country.  Kill all the   
   > unborn children you want. My concern is for America.   
      
   And you talk of "caring" people.   
      
   >> In other words, no matter what the religious wackos   
   >> manage to do in the U.S.,   
   >   
   > There are some bible-thumping nutcases who I think are   
   > extreme...   
      
   And you fit right into their group.   
      
   >> American women will continue to abort their unwanted   
   >> fetuses,   
   >   
   > And they will also continue to ingest illegal drugs...   
      
   Non sequitur.   
      
   >> and there is nothing whatsover the Bible-blasted   
   >> nutcases can do about it.   
   >   
   > If that's how you really feel, then you should have NO   
   > problem whatsoever with the US passing laws that restrict   
   > abortions, right?  I mean, since no one will abide by   
   > them, who cares?   
      
   You certainly don't care.   
      
   >> Something to think about, wackos, before you start   
   >> messing with your Constitution in a completely futile   
   >> effort. . . .   
   >   
   > Uh, for someone who obviously has never READ the U.S.   
   > Constitution, you are awful uppity, aren't you?  - FREE   
   > CLUE - there is NO right to an abortion under the   
   > Constitution, you nutcase. NONE....   
      
   The Supreme Court disagrees with you.   
      
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