From: keegan@pan.crd.ge.com (James G Keegan Jr)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Clarifying "Restrictions"
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:57:36 GMT
Reply-To: james g keegan jr <keegan@crd.ge.com>
Organization: T.S.A.K.C.
Disclaimer: i speak for myself only, unless noted otherwise

kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-> Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
-> >
-> >"Support for total repeal of all abortion laws also came from
-> >some unexpected sources. Lyndon Johnson had appointed a
-> >Presidential Advisory Council on the Status of Women, with former
-> >Senator Maurine Neuberger of Oregon as its chairwoman.  Its
-> >report, released in 1968, called for the repeal of all abortion
-> >laws." L. Tribe, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes
-> >
-> >"NAC came out in support of abortion as the woman's right.  Women
-> >might seek abortions after twenty weeks with the most compelling
-> >reasons - a teenager afraid to tell, a meonpausal woman who had
-> >not realized she was pregnant, a woman who has just discovered
-> >that she is carrying a deformed child.  A time-limit on abortion
-> >was thus seen as an arbitrary denial of these individual
-> >circumstances". S. Rowbotham, The Past is Before Us
-> >
-> >"The answer to later abortion is not further restrictions - the
-> >answer is access early in the pregnancy.  Sex education and birth
-> >control counselling not only reduce the need for abortion per se
-> >but also reduce the number of later abortions.  Ready access to
-> >an abortion facility eliminates delay.  And full insurance
-> >coverage means that women must not spend time looking for money
-> >to pay for the procedure.  Thus, people who oppose these measures
-> >are, in fact, contributing to the incidence of later abortions"
-> >CARAL (Canada), The Case Against Criminal Sanctions
-> >
-> >"Every woman has the fundamental right to decide for herself,
-> >free from government interference, whether or not to have an
-> >abortion.  Today, more than ever, American families do not want
-> >the government to trample on their right to privacy by mandating
-> >how they must decide on the most intimate, personal matters.
-> >That is why even though Americans may differ on what
-> >circumstances for terminating a crisis pregnancy are consistent
-> >with their own personal moral views, on the fundamental question
-> >of who should make this personal decision, the majority of
-> >Americans agree that each woman must have the right to make this
-> >private choice for herself.  Anti-choice proposals to ban
-> >abortions for sex-selection" or "birth control" are smokescreens
-> >designed to shift the focus of the debate away from this
-> >fundamental issue and trivialize the seriousness with which
-> >millions of women make this highly personal decision.  Any
-> >government restriction on the reasons for which women may obtain
-> >legal abortions violates the core of this right and could force
-> >all women to publically justify their reasons for seeking an
-> >abortion."
-> >NARAL, Who Decides? A Reproductive Rights Issues Manual
-> 
-> So much for groups that oppose any and all criminal sanctions against 
-> abortion. Big deal. We knew that already. Care to take a shot at disproving 
-> what Ray _actually_ said, i.e. "almost nobody seriously proposes that there 
-> should be no restrictions WHATEVER on the PROCESS of getting an abortion"
-> (emphasis added)?

i can see you should have taken ms. birmingham's
advice to you:

---------
'Mr. Darcy may I suggest that you enroll yourself posthaste in a
remedial english programme, your lack of reading comprehension is
astounding.  However, until you are able to secure such a class,
I recommend that in the future you read very slowly, saying each
word out loud as you come to it.  It is possible that this
method will help to override your megalomaniacal, paranoid,
"there's a sychophant behind every bush", thought process and
maybe, just maybe, you will stop presenting yourself as such a
complete and utter imbecile.'

					Linda Birmingham
					<91147.150725ADMN8647@Ryerson.CA>
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