From: Scar-eye@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: A problem I'm having...
Date: Tue Jul 19 09:23:04 1994

First off, I want to announce that, due to an injury I suffered as I left 
campus yesterday, I will no longer be calling myself Badger01, but will 
instead be going by the colorful Sobriquet Scar-eye. They tell me I will 
have a nasty one, and that my sight may not return. Cest' la vie: I still 
have my left eye, the rest of my face is okay, and I'm not dead, so I can 
deal with it. (In the past it would have fucking killed me.)

Anyway, on to a new topic. In my continuing efforts to make myself the 
most hated person on YABBS (From the man who brought up the Meat 
Controversy) I want to ask you guys: What's your take on Abortion Rights? 
I've got a little story to explain why I'm curious.
When I was seventeen, the girl I was going out with at the time, Karen 
(Not her real name) and I were sexually active. After we had been together 
for a while, she told me that she had become pregnant, despite our 
precautions (And I did use contraception, not just leaving it up to her) 
and two days before she told me, she had terminated the pregnancy. We 
continued to see each other for another year and a half, only breaking up 
after my mother's death. But it haunts me. I have always believed , and 
still believe, that a woman does, and should, bear the choice in this 
matter. But at the same time I also beilieve that she aborted what was my 
child. (Fitzgerald always saoid that the test of a first rate mind is it's 
ability to hold two diametrically opposed opinions) I am for choice and 
for allowing women to get access to better and safer medical options...but 
I also wonder if our daughter or son would have looked like me. I wish she 
had discussed it with me. I know that we both are better off now due to 
her decidion (I'm in college, she's working at a bank and attending night 
classes at RI College herself) and that if we had tried to do otherwise, 
we'd probably end up hating each other. I don't even know what I would 
have done. But I wonder.

What do you all think? Is this even an issue a man should be raising? 
(Let's face it...men don't get pregnant. It's easier for them to be 
cavalier about this.)

Scar-eye Rossi