Re: Abortion

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:58:59 -0000, Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

==>In talk.philosophy.humanism Moorehead Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
==>> Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
==>
==>>> 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.