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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: When will We See the Changes in the Stats...
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:49:45 GMT
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- In <1k469aINN522@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
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- >In article <81867@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@cerl.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
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- >>Or is drawing the line "somewhere" like a hunter going hunting and
- >>shooting at anything that moves in the trees, even though he can't
- >>make out what it is?
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- >Uh, not really.
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- >>As far as a societal consensus goes, I think most people believe that
- >>the unborn is a person. However, they are willing to let SOMEONE ELSE (not
- >>themselves) decide to terminate a pregancy for some supposed goal
- >>or achievment that is "needed" or required as seen by the other person.
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- >Yeah, because the "other" person *IS* a person. No doubt about it.
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- >The incredible misogyny of deciding a person vs. a perhaps-we-aren't-sure-
- >and-anyway-it's-harming-it's-host not-person in favor of the latter
- >boggles the mind.
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- >The incredible mysogyny of reducing a woman to a breeding animal because of
- >*your* *personal* values also boggles the mind.
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- >It isn't a simple either/or scenario. What abortion restriction entails is
- >returning women to the status of chattel, and nothing less.
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- Rubbish. Nobody wants to require any woman to BECOME pregnant.
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- >Not too surprising that there's a level of outcry, is it?
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- >Adrienne Regard
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- Mark Pundurs
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