From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Oh Steve! Oh Canada!
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:10:04 GMT
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Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In <92101.130850ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:

>Sources please.  The last Canadian Gallop poll on abortion showed
>that over 60% of the Canadian population agreed with the right of
>women to obtain abortions, over 80% agreed she had a right in
>certain situations.  Considering women make up half of the
>population it is debatable that more women than men are pro-life.
   Okay - you know the answers to this, but did you read the questions?
I read the latest survey and it was one of the most cryptic and vague
surveys imaginable. The 80% circumstance ws something like "Can you
envision under ANY circumstances that a woman can be justified
to have an abortiON". Well dear, the Catholic church believes that a woman
should be able to have an abortion if her life is mortally and certainly
endangered. So, of course that number would be high.

>REAL Women, a major female prolife organization in Canada, has a
>membership far lower than the membership registered in NAC.
>Considering the Canadian apathy to become politically involved,
>the number differences are seen to be significant to the point
>that the Federal government agreed that funding REAL Women is not
>required because they do not sufficiently reflect the attitudes
>of Canadian women.
   I've liked to term REAL women as "feminists with morals". Seems
rather fitting don't you think? The reason that REAL women is 
so diminished financially is because of it's lack of federal financial
support. Also it is a relatively new concept but has has lots of success
in recent years. I stand behin the group faithfully for their intelligence
and persistence.

>The leaders of two leading antiabortion organizations are men.
>Reverend Campbell (I've forgotten the name of his group) was a
>frequent demonstrator and spokesperson for the Right to Life
>movement until he was arrested and jailed for violating a court
>against protesting outside of a Toronto Morgentaler clinic
>The leader of the Canadian Operation Rescue is a man.  The
>politicians who have tabled prolife policies have all been
>men.
   And your point is? There are thousands of women who are proud to have
these men as their spokesperson. Do they have to be women to merit
any respect? Shouldn't it be enough that women support and respect this
man's word? I think the best candidate for the job is what is important,
male OR female...

>Canadian women are no different than our American sisters.
>So don't for one minute think that if the federal government
>tries to repeat their past mistake of reintroducing abortion
>legislation in this country that women will sit passively back
>thinking the Senate will awaken from its somnolent state twice
>in one century.
  YOu call it a mistake, but I call it PROGRESS. When you say that
"women will [not] sit passively" please refer to the proper group.
Pro-choic women will no sit passively. The rest of us pro-life men
and women will celebrate the improvement of morals in our society and 
the end of the "me" generation. It's not too far off. 
   steve

>Linda
>--
>I never march in demonstrations
> I hold my breath for arbitration
>     I am far too Canadian
>Spirit of the West
huh?
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