--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mainstream supports women having the choice about abortion and not > legislating it, and he doesn't even know that that is his opinion: > > Mainstream: > > I have no intention of > physically preventing anyone from doing anything, so back off ! >> > > Welcome to the club mainstream.
Um, to inject a little reality here... This is too important an issue to let the pro-choice side get cluttered up with absurdities. The anti- choice side is already bad enough. Laws against abortion do not, of course, result in physically preventing a woman from having an abortion. They make it illegal *to perform* an abortion, which means the crime, if discovered, can be prosecuted *after the fact*. But the person who would be prosecuted is the abortionist, not the woman. Laws against abortion do make getting one more difficult, however, because fewer doctors will be willing to risk prosecution for performing them. Stick with your point that campaigns to make abortion illegal should be ditched in favor of campaigns to make unwanted pregnancies less likely.
