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- From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
- Subject: Re: Abortions should be rare
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:58:47 GMT
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- <zdp3+mf@rpi.edu> (rocker) writes:
- > The focus of the Clinton
- > administration's family planning policies will be the _prevention_
- > of unwanted pregnancies, unlike the previous repressive regimes whose
- > policies on family planning consisted of a big, cheery "Just say no!"
-
- I'd like to see you defend your description of the Reagan/Bush
- administrations as "repressive" concerning abortion and family
- planning issues. They refused to put the power and purse of the
- federal government behind many activities and institutions, it is
- true, but that is not "repressive", now is it? Is there any
- woman in America who wanted an abortion in the last 12 years
- who was prevented from getting one by the acts of the Reagan
- or Bush administations? Did they stop even one abortion?
- Refusing to fund or participate in abortions is *not* the same
- thing. All the federal policies concerning abortion that I am
- aware of, for example, the Hyde Amendment, are of this nature.
- Maybe you know something I don't?
-
- The only Reagan/Bush policy I think could possibly be construed
- as "repressive" (depending on one's position on many issues)
- might be their efforts to repeal Roe v. Wade. And all that
- can be said on that front is that they tried to be "repressive"
- and failed miserably.
-
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- | Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis |
- | "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they |
- | please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we |
- |___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
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