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- From: nyikos@cc.uow.edu.au (peter nyikos)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: COMPROMISE IN THE MAKING.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.053132.18754@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 05:31:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul12.131229.15740@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <Jul.13.03.30.22.1992.17034@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Organization: University Of Wollongong
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- clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul12.131229.15740@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
- > Mark Ira Kaufman writes:
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- >> All in all, an acceptable compromise.
-
- This refers to the FOCA, which goes far beyond Roe v. Wade and
- would strike down informed consent, parental consent etc. laws
- before viability.
-
- >NOT. Certain basic rights can absolutely not be "compromised"
- >away; reproductive freedom is one of these.
-
- FOCA does NOT restrict abortion even in the 3rd trimester; it only
- leaves it up to states to do so, if they wish. So Chris Long
- is free to carry on the fight. He only pretends not to like FOCA,
- so as to leave himself with a valuable bargaining chip.
-
- >I'll give up the fight when I'm dead.
-
- Other messages promoting FOCA as a compromise are similarly
- insincere. Except for the Maryland and Washington laws,
- FOCA is the most draconian pro-choice law ever promulgated
- in the USA that I know of.
-
- Peter Nyikos
-