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- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:31:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.223345.12792@tc.fluke.COM> emery@tc.fluke.COM (John Emery) writes:
- #In article <C0xG5t.5DF.1@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- ##This thread is clearly about abortion, so followups are set to
- ##talk.abortion.
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- ##In article <1993Jan15.171713.22101@tc.fluke.COM# emery@tc.fluke.COM (John Emery) writes:
- ###In article <c8at03uec8tl00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
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- ####Ah, then both you and Rush obviously do not grasp the correct meaning
- ####of that word. "Pro-choice" means being in favor of there being at
- ####least two choices legally available. It certainly does not mean the
- ####advocating of one or the other of those choices, as you seem to believe.
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- ###Then you would favor as much federal funding for crisis pregnancy clinics
- ###as you would for abortion clinics? It would seem to me that in order to
- ###be fair, that we should make going through with an unexpected pregnancy
- ###as financially, emotionally, and circumstantially feasible as that of
- ###have an abortion. According to your viewpoint, there should just as
- ###much counseling available that would support having the child as there
- ###would be for aborting it. That way, all things being equal, the woman
- ###would really be able to fairly choose. Does that sound agreeable to you?
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- ##It *sounds* fair if one is not aware of the reality of the
- ##situation. Women's health clinics that provide abortion
- ##services also provide options counseling. This form of counseling
- ##allows a woman to choose the outcome that she most prefers, be
- ##it abortion or childbirth (and the choice between keeping the baby
- ##or having it adopted.) Factual information is presented in
- ##these settings.
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- #If the abortion industry weren't such a lucrative business and profits
- #were'nt involved, perhaps this would be a trustworthy option. However,
- #when money is involved, even the best people can be tempted to overlook
- #the good of the patient.
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- Many clinics which provide abortion services are non-profit.
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- Furthermore, many of the so-called "crisis pregnancy clinics"
- are affiliated with adoption services or refer to lawyers
- who arrange private adoptions. They might be tempted to
- overlook the good of the women duped into entering their
- establishment in their zeal to provide babies to the market.
- ##So-called "crisis pregnancy clinics" (they are legally enjoined
- ##from calling themselves clinics in many states since they
- ##generally have no medical professionals on site), on the other
- ##hand, actively seek to promote only one choice, childbirth.
- #
- #That is because these clinics are motivated by moral convictions.
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- Many clinics which provide abortions are operated by
- people who are motivated by moral convictions.
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- #But my argument still stands, Susan. On one hand you have abortion
- #clinics that are favorably disposed toward giving abortions whereas
- #crisis pregnancy clinics that are favorably disposed toward a woman
- #carrying out her pregnancy. My proposal is to have the crisis preg-
- #nancy clinic just as accessible and just as funded so that the woman
- #herself can choose without availability and finances being an issue.
- #For instance the woman could then either choose a women's health clinic
- #in which case she will most likely get an abortion or choose a crisis
- #pregnancy clinic in which case she would most likely carry the
- #pregnancy. But the choose would be hers.
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- You have yet to show that abortion clinics are as biased in
- their counselling as the pro-lie propaganda centers are.
- You seem to disregard the notion that professional
- counselors are capable doing true options counselling.
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- I have yet to talk to a woman who visited a fake clinic
- who wasn't given gross misinformation about pregnancy and
- abortion. If the people who ran them had any intention
- of telling women the truth, they would be open about their
- purpose. Most of them hide behind innocuous sounding or
- even misleading names (AAA Abortion Counselling, etc.)
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- ##There is no service that could possibly be provided by a
- ##"crisis pregnancy clinic" that is not already provided by
- ##abortion clinics. Counselors in abortion clinics are able
- ##to make all the same referrals that those places do, and
- ##several more, besides.
- #
- #By taking away the crisis pregnancy clinic option, one would be
- #hypocritical to the pro-choice name.
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- I haven't seen anyone argue that fake clinics shouldn't be allowed
- to exist. I have seen people argue against funding sources
- of misinformation. (I am doing so.)
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