Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Rind" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Abortion in Japan Date: 8 Dec 2005 06:34:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1134052481.070183.130320@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1133971042.916852.80270@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1133972383.998756.169620@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1134016783.431397.292410@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1134035857.785707.311810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1h79p5m.x3el21u55ttsN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <1134051593.893894.297690@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.67.141.90 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1134052486 4562 127.0.0.1 (8 Dec 2005 14:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:34:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.67.141.90; posting-account=rOMCMQ0AAADayi40wv76sEw52Btl9Y2t Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:30685 DJ Hannibal wrote: > I have a Japanese girlfriend, and upon asking her she didn't even know > what abortion was! When I explained it to her in my somewhat limited > Japanese, she said Japanese people tend to not have abortions...then > again she has 2 brothers and 2 sisters so maybe that's just them! Haha. > I've been here for 4 years, and not once in the Japanese papers have I > seen anything related to abortion or the pill. Hope that helps! I appreciate that. The Japanese boyfriend of my Irish friend apparently said that in Japan its believed that women who terminate pregnancies NEVER want children .... mmmm!?! He went on to say that the reason they believe that is because by having a termination you are telling your body to reject pregnancy now and in the future.