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- From: chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman)
- Subject: Re: A Book and an Offer
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:04:39 GMT
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- kmaloy+@pitt.edu (Kate Maloy) writes:
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- > In fact, the main thing that emerges from the stories in our
- > book is a private reality utterly at odds with the public debate. We have
- > found, for instance, that when women describe their personal experience
- > with the need to choose, they virtually never use the language of the
- > political debate. They do not mention rights, and they rarely ponder
- > when life begins. Instead, they consult a moral standard that has to do
- > with matters of human responsibility, relationship and caretaking. (Many
- > of you will recognize the research of Carol Gilligan, Mary Belenky and
- > others in this--and we both cite and confirm their findings.) Their
- > concerns are the same regardless of whether they choose birth or choose
- > abortion, and these concerns have to do with the quality of their
- > relationship with the man, their ability to love a child, their financial
- > and psychological resources, their employment status. They all regard
- > the need to choose between birth and abortion as a complex matter. They
- > do not subscribe to the blacks and whites of the debate. They also do not
- > reflect the anger and judgmental qualities of the debate; rather, they
- > tend to respect the choices of others who have been through this, even
- > when their choices differ.
-
- I liked this paragraph.
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