From: mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: The Nurturing Network 1-800-TNN-4MOM
Summary: Chaney: Older but defiitely ot wiser.
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:26:19 GMT
Organization: Atlantans For Torching Whatizit

Well, I have had to rearrange my access to Internet, but I am finally back.
I see not much has changed.  Please indulge me while I reply to an ancient
article.

> Chaney (haven't y'all gotten rid of him yet?) dreams:

> Funny, how Planned Parenthood supplies, besides birth control,
> absolutely nothing that would reduce the number of abortion customers

It's funny how birth control is the most effective means of preventing
"abortion customers."  The statement above is like saying, "Besides
roach killer, Orkin supplies absolutely nothing that would reduce the
number of roaches."

> 1) Crisis pregnancy assistance:
>  - Planned Parenthood has a negative (read: black hole) record on
>    providing favorable conditions for women to carry babies to term
>    if it proves the least bit convenient.

Gee, all of that low-cost prenatal care doesn't count for anything, right?
So what have YOU done to "provide favorable conditions for women to carry
babies to term"?  You must be as bad as you claim Planned Parenthood is!

> 2) Housing:
>  - Poor, money-strapped pro-lifers do more to provide pre and
>    postnatal support (including homes) for pregnant women. PP does
>    no such thing. 

PP is not in the housing business, twit. They don't claim to provide
every service under the sun.  But perhaps if people like you wouldn't
encourage companies like AT&T to defund them, they MIGHT have the
money to get involved in such programs.

(Aside about AT&T, from Aug. 1992 Gwinnett Citizens For Choice newsletter:
"Planned Parenthood places specila emphasis on confrontig the epidemic of
too-early childbirth amog American teenagers through First Things First,
an initiative launched in 1990.  First Things First advocates the right
of every child to accomplish first things - education, the attainment of
physical ad emotional maturity and sound, healthy ego development - before
he or she assumes the resposibility of parenthood.  The goal of the program

is to reduce by half, over the decade, the number of American teens who
become pregnant and give birth annually.  This is the program that AT&T
abandoned.  The company was pressured by a radical group to defund Planned
Parenthood.  You have the power to change this.  You ca defund AT&T.")

> 3) Alternatives: 
>  - Planned Parenthood? Alternatives to abortion? Do the letters
>    N, O, T and ! (guess which order) have any meaning?  

Yes, as is in "Chaney actually knows what he is talking about - NOT!
Chaney has done reserach o Planned Parenthood - NOT!  Chaney has been
inside a Planned Parenthood in his life - NOT!  Chaney treats the
propaganda of uneducated right-wing zealots with rational skepticism - NOT!"

>> 4) Sex Education: 
>>  - After the talk about birth control, does PP ever tell the students
>>    that abstinence is as EQUAL an option as sex? Once again, the
>>    letters N, O, T and ! (and !!!) bear great resemblance here, to the
>>    answer to this question. (And no, PatricKKK Harumphrey, I did not
>>    assert abstinence > sex. I said that according to PP, abstinence
>>    != option worth teaching.) 

Again, Chaney is right - the letters N, O and T (and the CHARACTER, not
the LETTER !, I see you don't even know your alphabet yet, Chaney) do
apply to this situation, as in, "Chaney has the smallest shred of
evidence to back up his absurd and rabid claims - NOT!"
-- 
"Republicans understand the importance of the bondage between parent and
child." - Dan Quayle at a GOP rally in Sept. '88 in Springfield, Illinois

Ferrari (mills@rolf.stat.uga.edu)