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- Subject: Re: The battle is won. So long for now.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.142603.2825@brandonu.ca>
- From: mcbeanb@brandonu.ca
- Date: 22 Nov 92 14:26:03 CST
- References: <1cumn6INNd14@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <Bx0ztM.4GE@cscns.com> <nyikos.722022980@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <nyikos.722022980@milo.math.scarolina.edu>, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- > In <1992Nov5.190215.2719@brandonu.ca> mcbeanb@brandonu.ca writes:
- >> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- [Eric leaving since Clinton was elected so p-choice "wins" for now...]
- >
- >>> That's typical of the pro-aborts -- they're only interested
- >>> in providing the choice to abort, nevermind about any other
- >>> choices.
- >
- >>Doug: Are you implying that the right to readily available contraception
- >>is threatened?
- >
- > Where does this talk of "threatened" come from?
-
- When there was a possibility that Bush would be re-elected, the right to
- choose abortion was most definitely threatened.
-
- >> The right to adopt? The right to carry pregnancies to
- >>term? In short: Huh??
- >
- > Oh, they support the rights all right (with the possible exception of
- > pro-abort Adrienne Regard), it's just that they can't be bothered with
- > making it easier for women to make those other two choices, and some
- > like Ms. Birmingham and Mr. Blackshaw [who may be pro-aborts themselves,
- > but I don't have enough evidence on them yet to make a formal charge]
- > do their best to emphasize the horrors of carrying to term.
-
- What's your point?
-
- > For that matter, they aren't all that supportive of women who choose
- > to abort. I have yet to hear of any pro-choice groups helping women
- > financially in re the abortion decision, the way Birthright and other
- > pro-life crisis pregnancy centers do the women who choose to carry to term.
- > Also, I do not know of any post-abortion support groups except pro-life
- > ones such as WEBA, Project Rachel, and many local ones.
-
- Maybe pro-choicers just don't have any cash to toss around. Idaknow.
- Your post seems pretty content-free as far as relevance goes.
-
- Brian McBean - McBeanB@BrandonU.Ca
-