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To: curtisgardner
The fact that women's sexuality, their safety during sex and their health decisions that follow sexual relationships are debated as topics for broad consensus in the first place is misogynistic. When males are granted the right to make health choices freely while women have the same privacy and freedom denied due to biological characteristics, the sexism that runs rampant in our society is blatantly clear.

When men can offer a woman half the cost of an abortion and not have their economic decisions debated by a woman and the courts with respect to child support, there might be some equality in abortion. As it stands now, there isn't. Only the woman has any "choices" after sex. If the pro-abortion feminists supported that sort of thing, I'd believe that equality was actually their concern.

Honestly, I do not care what a woman's reason is for having an abortion, as I am not in a place to judge. Economics, family, sex abuse, power disparities in relationships, education and many other factors I have no ability to begin to understand, play into a woman deciding to terminate a pregnancy. I do not care how many abortions a woman has or for what reason; it is her body and her choice, bottom line.

A few years ago, a woman in Patterson, NJ wanted to go out and party but was stuck with an infant child. After several failed attempts to find someone to take care of the child, she decided that it was her body and her choice and tossed her child into a river where he died. What I want to know is whether this author feels that a parent should have their choices restricted to take care of a born child or not if nobody else is available to take care of that child. Do adults have an obligation to take care of born infants or not?

29 posted on 10/10/2005 10:10:02 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
"Do adults have an obligation to take care of born infants or not?"

Only those whose caregiving salaries are paid by the state.

65 posted on 10/10/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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