Fanatics (Was: Re: [geeks] Booze and Religion)

[Kris Kirby]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Making abortion illegal won't stop abortion; it may not even reduce the
> number of abortions. It's illegal in Ireland (except for special
> circumstances), and there's a stream of "health tourists" coming to the
> UK for abortions. If the trip to the UK wasn't so easy, Ireland would
> be in the same situation that the UK used to be in --- women with
> access to resources would be able to get safe abortions, women without
> would only have access to very unsafe backstreet abortions.
>
> My grandmother isn't the sort you would expect to be in favour of legal
> abortions, but is. She's certainly isn't in favour of abortions, but
> accepts that making it illegal would be worse ... because she's seen
> the effects that it has. She used to live next door to an illegal
> abortionist.

s/abortion/drugs

decriminalization is the key.

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