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- From: dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: Spot the Absurdity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.202511.184994@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 20:25:11 GMT
- References: <By04n0.5zr@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Manumission: The Campus Men's Forum
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- In article <By04n0.5zr@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> dmcanzi@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi) writes:
- >(Article from Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Sep 4, 1992)
- >
- > Women's groups plan protests at sex-choice clinic
- >
- >Vancouver(CP)-British Columbia women's groups say they will stage
- >protests if a Toronto doctor opens a sex-selection clinic in
- >Vancouver....
- > "Basically he's marketing to the prejudice that already exists in
- >our society against women," said Sunera Thobani of Vancouver, head of
- >the reproductive technologies committee of the National Action
- >Committee for the Status of Women.
- > "The provision of this kind of technology is really disgusting."
- > Thobani called on the federal and provincial governments to ban
- >the technology, which she said discriminates against females before
- >they're even born.
-
- Absurdity, part 1:
-
- Sex selection technology already exists, and in fact is used most often
- in this country to select against male babies (or, in fact to abort male
- fetuses) mostly in cases where there is a male-linked genetic disease in
- the family.
-
- Absurdity, part 2:
-
- Dianne Feinstein, when she was running against Pete Wilson for
- California Governor a while back (she lost, and then successfully ran
- for the Senate), said she would support restrictions on sex-selection
- abortions. Pro-choice activists and feminists raised an uproar, and
- Dianne changed her mind.
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