Original_To:  @CHRISTIA
Original_cc:  WRBANEK
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:08:00 CDT
From:         "john d. wrbanek" <WRBANEK@FNAL.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Abortion Lables [among others]

To what point does one want to limit abortions?  To what point does one want to
promote them?

What does the Bible say? (this is CHRISTIA, ya know.)

My great fear, based on what is going on in the Chicago area....

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                 ANTI-ABORTION BILL INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE

WASHINGTON - Senator Batsen D. Belfries introduced a bill limiting the use of
abortions over a period of time.  "The bill is a milestone," Sen. Balfries said
at a press conference Monday.  "This bill preserves the woman's right to chose
whether or not to have children and puts forward a plan to respect the rights
of the unborn."  The bill, considered to be a compromise between various sides
of the abortion issue, removes all government funding for abortions and
transfers it to a special "Family Choice" program.

"The whole idea is that women want the choice to have children, and there is
concern that the human fetus is too lively to be forced into an enviorment that
will prevent it from living," says Parental Planning counselor Joanne Vianne.
"This raises an ethical problem, which the Belfries Bill has resolved.  Women
can now choose, and the fetus can never develop, so it is not an issue."  Also,
she said it should reduce dramatically the number of abortions preformed per
year, well below the limit targeted in the bill.

One of the bill's few critics, Chicago Archbishop Perrine has critized the bill
as a form of birth control.  Rep. Dewey Cheatem, a supporter of the Belfries
Bill, disagrees.  "The Belfries Bill takes the freedom of choice to its next
logical step.  Any procedures to remove the ability to have children supported
in this measure are done under the voluntary will of the woman.  If the Bishop
is against giving such decisions up to the woman, he should say so."

"It was obvious that there is a need to bring family rights to the
underprivlaged," Sen. Belfries explained.  "Abortion laws requiring intercity
hospitals to preform the right of abortions on demand started a still growing
trend of lawsuits from these hospitals that are backing up our legal system.
We decided to preserve the choice to the women while limiting the number of
abortions based on population density.  This is done by transferring all
federal funding for abortions to fund a program that institutes the choice of
woman to have children.  This program we call the 'Family Choice' program, and
is based on a successful program currently in use on many Native American
Reserves."

The Sahara Club, the Enviormental Activist group, issued a surprise statement,
calling the Belfries Bill a "giant step in purifying our home planet."  The
further called for the US to introduce such a resolution in the United Nations.
"Without world wide support for such a program," the statement concludes, "we
can never regain the enviormental harmony of the planet."

Currently, the Belfries Bill appears to have widespread support in Congress,
and is expected to be on the President's desk for his signature by election
day.

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