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Well said Paula! Nic 57/15 On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Paula E. Jayne <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Whether or not you (the collective you) believe abortion is necessary or > not, > the fact remains that it is legal. If you disagree with it, appropriate > responses might include fighting the battle in the courts, helping to > improve > adoption services so that those women who carry to term but choose not to > mother have viable alternatives, lessening the social stigma and huge > financial > costs of being a single parent, helping to increase access (including > financial > access) to contraceptives, improving sexual education in schools so that > teens > have accurate information about their fertility (or, if you don't think > adolescents should be having sex before marriage & therefore they shdn't > need > to know about contraceptives, fight for Life Skills education which teaches > teens how to reason through big decisions), supporting any way you can the > parents that you do know, having civil conversations with people about why > you > don't believe abortion should be legal, volunteering for foster care, be a > big > brother / big sister, fight for a liveable mimimum wage so people can > afford to > raise children, fight for day care reform so parents can count on safe and > affordable childcare, the list goes on & on... > > but taking a gun into a holy place and shooting a person in front of their > family, friends, and God? > hopefully we can all agree that this is not the act of a loving person or > one > who truly values life. & for those who say he was trying to save the > children, > i am quite sure there were children in that church who witnessed the > murder > and who will never, ever forget what they experienced that day. > > Incidentally, late-term abortions, often referred to as partial-birth > abortions, are very rarely performed and it is not an easy decision for the > parent(s) to come to. These are not women who just decided that they no > longer wanted a baby. It is not a whim. Even if you don't and will > never > agree with it, please try to understand that you are speaking of real women > and > men when you make blanket condemnations (and this is true for all of us, > whether we're in the right, left, or middle). > > > ****************************************** > Paula Jayne, MA, MPH > Doctoral Candidate > Department of Women's Studies > Emory University > Atlanta, GA 30322 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: > [log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn