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  1. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uchinews!quads!eeb1
  3. From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
  4. Subject: Re: Labels (was Proposed definitions for FAQ )
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.050825.22146@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <1992Dec28.160904.19902@wetware.com>
  10. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:08:25 GMT
  11. Lines: 48
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Dec28.160904.19902@wetware.com>
  14. diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
  15.  
  16. >First off, the basic scale does not really have
  17. >"pro-choice" at one end and "pro-life" at the other.
  18.  
  19. >It more falls out like this:
  20.  
  21. >|------------------------------------------------|
  22. >^Choice                                     Force^
  23.  
  24. >First - the Force end can actually be split into
  25. >two - with Choice between them.  This is an example
  26. >of the old idea that politics are more circular
  27. >than linear - if you follow an idea far enough, you
  28. >wind up back to the other side.  So, we have:
  29.  
  30. >|--------------------------|---------------------------|
  31. >^                          ^                           ^
  32. >Forced Birth             Choice                Forced Abortion
  33.  
  34. The graph as you have it above implies that the decision wrt choice or
  35. force is related to the decision wrt birth or abortion.  It would be
  36. more accurate to have a two-dimensional graph:
  37.  
  38. ---------------------------------------
  39. |                                     |  
  40. |  Pro-Choice               Forced    | /^\
  41. | (prefers abortion)       Abortion   |  |
  42. |                                     |  | Abortion
  43. |                                     |  |  or
  44. |                                     |  | Birth
  45. |                                     |  |
  46. |                                     | \./
  47. |                                     |
  48. |   Pro-Choice               Forced   |
  49. | (prefers birth)             Birth   |
  50. |                                     |
  51. ---------------------------------------
  52.   <-------- Choice or Force -------->
  53.  
  54.  
  55.  
  56. -- 
  57. Pro-Choice                 Anti-Roe                     - E. Elizabeth Bartley
  58.             Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
  59.  
  60. Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
  61.