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Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 1992 07:27:58 EST
From: Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: KILLfile created to prevent flamewar
 <92237.200055ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> <p2flip8@fido.asd.sgi.com>

In article <p2flip8@fido.asd.sgi.com> C.J. Silverio says:

>In article <92237.200055ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> Linda Birmingham writes:
> > In article <oqnbvq8@fido.asd.sgi.com> CJ Silverio
>[...]

>|>I'm willing to compromise, as a purely political move, on less
>|>important issues in order to preserve the rights I consider most
>|>important.

>|It would appear Ms. Silverio that you and others are willing
>|to compromise the rights of women less fortunate than you.
>|The poor, the disadvantaged, the vulnerable.

>Perhaps you could explain what this comment has to do with the
>idea of restricting third trimester abortions to those which are
>medically necessary, which is what the argument was all about.

Restrictions affect the disadvantaged, Ms. Silverio.
The argument was also about people who support
restrictions such as waiting periods, jailing
women for obtaining an abortion after the 22nd
or 24th week and granting fetal personhood.
Perhaps you should read the posts of those you
defend and the threads that you denounce.

>You're the first person to mention funding of abortion--
>what has this to do with the dispute?

Where, Ms. Silverio, do I mention funding, either in
what you quoted or my original post?  Perhaps
it is you who misunderstood what I wrote.

>Do you even know what my position on abortion funding *is*?

Is it similar to your position on bodily autonomy?

>And for extra credit, can you correctly state my opinion on
>third trimester abortions?

Is it similar to your position on bodily autonomy?

>Do you know the opinions of the person you are criticizing?

Not any more.

>Or are you just reflexively flaming, and helping Keegan play his
>one-note samba?

Would you care to point to where in my post I was
flaming, Ms. Silverio?  Are you suggesting
that I do not have the right to ask questions of
people's positions and voice my opinion in
this newsgroup?  Or are you just reflexively
playing the flame smokescreen one-note samba?

>Eric R tells me that The Obsessive Archivist
>has been flaming me, despite knowing that he's well-esconced in
>my killfile.

Ms. Silverio why have you raised the spectre of
Mr. Keegan?  No where in the post you are
responding to do I refer to the man.  Considering
your repeated references to your killfiling him,
this smacks of obsession on your part.

>If you're going to do his dirty work for him,

Ms. Silverio get something straight, I don't post for
anyone but myself and I certainly do not do the
"dirty work" of some man.  This is the second time
I have seen you accuse a woman in this newsgroup of
somehow being under Mr. Keegan's control.  You
were wrong in Ms. Demitrio's case, just as you
are wrong in mine.  You may be willing to sell
your principles for others, some of us are not.

>I will reluctantly killfile you, too.

If you do not wish to respond to my questions
Ms. Silverio that is certainly your prerogative.
If what I post upsets your sensibilities by
all means killfile them.  It really dosen't matter
to me and I doubt it matters to anyone in t.a.
You are free to do as you wish.

However I do suggest you reconsider implying that
my opinions, or any woman's, are under the control
of some man in or out of this newsgroup.  To some
women, this attitude is very offensive.



Linda
--
"the proclamation of an opinion, the assertion of Woman's
 Natural Right to ownership of and control over her own
 body-self - a right inseparable from Women's intelligent
 existence"  E. Heywood, 1883
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