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Terra Cholfin wrote:
> 
> In article <5050m5$57d@news.cpbx.net>, varney@mail.cpbx.net (Bruce Varney)
> wrote:
> 
> >         If men were the ones that had children (and all other things
> > were still the same), abortion would be illegal. It is only because
> > people have falsely turned abortion into a "gender issue" when it
> > is clearly a "human life" issue.
> 
> *snort* I would be willing to bet that if men were the ones to get pregnant
> and give birth, abortion would be quite legal and freely available.
> 
> Also, I think abortion *is* a gender issue. I accompanied a friend to a
> clinic this weekend. Five out of the six protesters out front were men,
> while only two out of the dozen or so people I saw going into the clinic
> were men. It's *not* clearly a human life issue. The protesters didn't
> seem to care much about the lives of the humans going into the clinic.
> 
> --
> Theresa M. "Terra" Cholfin
> Department of Materials Science and Engineering
> MIT Room 8-109, Cambridge, MA 02139
> terra@mit.edu
> http://web.mit.edu/terra/www/
You can be willing to bet anything you want. Maybe it would happen, and
maybe it wouldn't. Sort of like betting that if mothers were put into
the same situation as fathers more often that things would change fairly
fast. We may never know.