From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
Subject: Re: WHO OWNS WHO?...or is it whom?...or what?
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:39:13 GMT
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In <1992Aug17.204637.20295@ncsu.edu> dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu writes:

> In article <1992Aug16.005011.3902@menudo.uh.edu> 
> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
> 
> >In <7c7m1nl.gordons@netcom.com> gordons@netcom.com writes:
> 
> >> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) :
> 
> >>> And to clear up something I just noticed, Gordon's first post seems to 
> >>> imply a "forcing the woman" viewpoint on the part of the original poster.  
> >>> I do not support "forcing" not be forced to carry to term.
>  
> >> Glad to hear that you are pro-choice.  For some reason I had the
> >> impression you were pro-life (in terms of legislation).  Please, correct
> >> me if I'm in error.
> 
> > Consider yourself corrected.  Meet the anti-abortion but pro-choice person
> > that does more than pay lip service to the first part of his stance.
> 
> Wait just a second.  Didn't you once claim that most pro-lifers do not
> agree with Steve Chaney's remarks?  If you're now claiming to be pro- 
> "choice", then what business do you have saying such a thing?  

  After some months on this newsgroup, where I thought I had laid things out
pretty plainly on more than one occasion, two people in as many days seem
surprised at my stance!  And regulars, not newbies, to boot.

  Well, Doug, considering the remarks of Mr. Chaney's that I was responding
to, I would be shocked to find ANYbody willing to agree with them, much less
us more reasonable "pro-lifers".  I call myself pro-life as much as anti-
abortion because I think it is wrong.  If you don't like it, feel free to
call me whatever you want.  I would NOT consider myself to be "pro-choice"
with all that conveys--I do not pay lip service to my anti-abortionism.
If you must, then say I am "not anti-choice", at least not altogether.  I
support Roe, even if I do not like it especially.

> And since you're claiming to be pro-"choice", do you support unrestricted 
> abortion on demand throughout the term of pregnancy?  
> Doug Holtsinger

  Personally and legally, no.  But abortion is already restricted in the third
trimester (from a practical standpoint, Dalton be damned), and I would
go so far as to restrict AFTER viability (which is currently somewhere in mid-
twenties, week-wise), which is about the third trimester anyway, and not really
changing the status quo all that much.

  Somehow, I feel extremists from both sides are not gonna look favorably on
this post...

semper fi,

Jammer Jim Miller 
Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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