From: pbj@yabbs To: scar@yabbs Subject: re: re:abortion Date: Tue Jul 19 13:28:36 1994 okay since i too had a part in the beginning of the whole meat thingy i should at least be accomplice to this one too... fisr of all you have to understand that i come from a very traditional "christian" family and although i my sellf am agnostic i still hold alot of the beilfs i held as a younger child...this being one of them. i am a very sexually active female and i have known the whole prgeanacy scare thing a few too many times more than i care to recount...but i have never actually been so i have been faced with this question alot more feasibly than hypotehtically ( iknow i butuchared that word ..oh well) and every time that i was faced with the question alone..meaning that the male counter-part did not figure in to the picture...i was at a loss as to what to do but i knew that wether i kept the baby or adopted it away i would have the child and "face the disgrace" because it is a disgrace even now in the 90's the reasoning behind my holcding with this belif is that all life is precious and for me to selfishly take the life of another for my own convienience and comfort totally goes against every human part of my being however i do agree that men have absolutely no right in trying to tell a woman what to do with her life..on the other hand though i recognize that it does "take two" and assuming this is an ideal ( hoxymoron i know but oh well) situation bothe "parties" were consenting and involved in the act so there for all parties opinions should be taken into account..although it is the womans final decision oaky that was my 2% of a dollars worth sorry about my spelling...to tierd to try and fix it Colleen Marie Consistently Sober