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- From: sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: more phoney disinformation?
- Keywords: me and the coroner
- Message-ID: <1271@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:39:53 GMT
- References: <qd12bt@rpi.edu> <1210@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1992Dec31.174624.25195@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.174624.25195@crd.ge.com> keegan@crd.ge.com writes:
- #sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- #|>Becky Bell died because of people like PHoney. Rosie Jimenez
- #|>died because of people like PHoney. Worldwide, tens of
- #|>thousands of women die each year because of people like
- #|>PHoney. All of his lies, all of his stupid flames, won't
- #|>change this.
- #
- #no, they won't. i wonder if people like PHoney ever
- #think about women dying.
-
- I think that try not to, in some cases. (Others, I fear, delight
- in the idea.) People like PHoney who lie about Becky Bell's death
- are obviously trying to pretend that women won't die because of
- their attitudes.
-
- I have to wonder why no such disinformation campaign was mounted
- by the right-to-lie movement over Rosie Jimenez's death. In
- her case, the CDC ruled that she died of complications following
- an unsafe, illegal abortion in 1979. The partera who performed
- the illegal abortion was prosecuted and found guilty. Maybe
- there was just too much evidence that time. Also, I
- think it's due partly to the fact that she was a poor Latina woman
- rather than an upper middle class blonde teenager, and therefore
- easier for them to discount as not worthy of their attention.
- I think another reason is that they have more support for their
- policy of government funding only for births. Many people who
- self-identify as pro-choice also argue against government funding
- for abortion. They, too, choose to ignore women like Ms. Jimenez.
-
- Susan
-
-