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- From: tjoa@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Tjoa)
- Subject: Flamers on both sides of the Potomac (Was: A lot of different subjs.)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.061031.14567@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Summary: The best way to cross the river? Roe vs. Wade(?!)
- Keywords: abortion life comprehensive readme part1 sex
- Sender: tjoa@cory.berkeley.edu (Myself)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cory
- Organization: You see, Burke Lee.
- References: <Many different people>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:10:31 GMT
- Lines: 174
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- First off, I'd like to request that Mr. Chaney please refrain from making
- insults at anyone, although I hope this would apply to everyone.
-
- In article <mykes.0acg@amiga0.SF-Bany.ORG> (Mike Schwartz) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.034354.27753@wetware.com> (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- >>In another article (Mike Schwartz) writes:
- >> ] Women were never ever made criminals. Doctors were held responsible.
- >> ] This is before Roe, since there has been ZERO legislation against
- >> ] abortion in the 20 years since.
- >>
- >> don't get out in the big world a whole lot now do you?
- >>
- >> forget about a place called pennsylvania?
- >
- >According to a consortium of 8+ pro-abortion interest groups, only
- >25 states are likely to outlaw abortion altogether. Less than
- >10 would make it 100% unregulated as per Roe. The rest of the
- >states would allow reasonable limitations on abortion. This
- >is "if Roe is overturned" by the supreme court. My source is
- >Time Magazine, which published the data as a map of the US
- >with each state in a specific color. The data was based upon
- >pre-Roe laws, current opinions of state leadership, and other
- >laws on the books.
- >
- >Now, tell me how Pennsylvania passed a law making abortion
- >100% illegal? Or shut the hell up.
-
- He didn't say anything about PA making abortion 100% illegal. He merely
- wanted to call attention to your assertion that there had been ZERO
- legislation against (limiting access doesn't make it "for") to abortion.
- Only 25 states? Gee, that's 1/2! Depending on where they were located,
- it could make access difficult to poorer women. (I also am unclear as to
- what you mean by "reasonable limitations". Reasonable to who?)
-
- >> forget about a place called guam....
- >
- >Same is true of guam.
- >
-
- Yeah, same is true of Guam. Now how much would it cost to get to the
- nearest legal abortion clinic if it was banned there? Who would suffer
- the most?
-
- >> and why is it that now when AntiAboritonistsRhetoriticianists
- >> rattle on about abortion laws, they do not talk in terms
- >> of returning to the days before R.v.W -
- >
- >I talk about the days before Roe quite a bit. Obviously you
- >have missed my posts. Before Roe, abortion was legal in the
- >US. There were 500,000 legal (repeat LEGAL) abortions in
- >the US - 1/3 of the number we have with Roe legalized abortions.
- >I also say that if Roe is overturned by the supreme court,
- >which I don't see happening, abortion will still be legal,
- >just as it was before Roe.
-
- Of course the number is going to go up. Suddenly illegal things are legal.
- (There were fewer people too, and less sex. I don't think that legalizing
- it was totally responsible for the gain.)
-
- >Tell me why the people of 25 states vote for government that
- >would make abortion illegal? Or shut the hell up.
-
- Do people only pick one issue to vote for a person on? (Well, yeah, but
- it's usually "He's not <the-other-guy>." [see Ross Perot])
-
- >> but instead speak in terms of "abortion is murder" and
- >> seek to criminalize it to a level it never knew before.....
- >
- >I have, in the past, said that abortion is murder. But that
- >is MY opinion. Do you deny me the right to MY opinion? Are
- >you that much a facsist? You would censor me?
-
- No, I do not deny you the right to your opinion. Do you deny women the
- right to choose what they think will be the best course for them?
-
- >What I only want to write about, since I will not convince
- >YOU abortion is murder nor do I even care to try at all,
- >is that the Supreme Court has NO business deciding the
- >question "what is life?" If you and I had to decide,
- >we could come to no conclusion...
-
- Probably.
-
- [..."personal attack"/response deleted...]
- >> then figure out which side of the liberty issue
- >> you want to be on....
- >
- >I already know what side of the liberty issue I want to be on.
- >I say that the state or feds should not be allowed to preclude
- >a woman from traveling anywhere she wants (i.e. to a state
- >where it is legal) to have her abortion. That is totally
- >consistent with the 14th ammendment.
-
- Now it is an "affordability" issue... Why should a person's rights differ
- in such a great manner between states, between social classes, or between
- sexes?
-
- =============================================================================
-
- In article <1992Jul27.211358.5944@csus.edu> (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
- >FACT: In Florida, the right to privacy which abortion is founded on,
- >has been expanded to the right of adults to screw little girls. FACT,
- >Susan.
-
- Yeah, so? Just what the hell is that supposed to mean? That particular
- part of the Constitution says a lot of stuff. It's like me saying that "the
- same right that prevents states from coming in and searching your property
- gives adults the right to screw little girls." It's not like the adults
- did not have their consent. (Although I probably would not have done it,
- but those are my beliefs that I won't go pushing on everyone. It should
- have been up to the parents to teach their children "morals" and about
- sex.) Should the state march in and check all little girls out there to
- see if they've had sex? I don't think so. In addition, I'm not entirely
- sure what that has to do with pro-choice (ie: Pro-choice means pro-adult/
- child sex!).
-
- =============================================================================
-
- In article <1992Jul27.214810.7132@csus.edu> (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.203331.8104@menudo.uh.edu> (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
- >>In <1992Jul23.184638.19161@athena.cs.uga.edu> (Terrance Heath) writes:
- >>
- >>> So why don't people from both sides get together and discuss
- >>> these issues, and leave the discussion of abortion out so that we
- >>> might discuss other ways of helping women, families, and children? We
- >>> might find that we agree more often than not, and we might actually be
- >>> able to make a difference that cannot help but affect the number of
- >>> women who seek abortions. We might be able to make life better for
- >>> those born, and those yet to be born.
- >>> Terrance Heath
- >>
- >> Hello, another semi-rational human being. I think I agreed with every
- >>word in your post. Maybe if we keep yelling enough for real solutions
- >>somebody out there will listen.
- >
- >I second this.
- >
- >BUT [...'s deleted for brevity...]
- >Where do I find a solution-oriented organization where I can work
- >without hearing the abortion issue 20 times a day and where pro-lifers
- >aren't talked down like dogs?
-
- I really hope that we here are trying to find something we can all live with.
- Also, insulting other people won't help gain any respect. Oh, how do you
- want to find the solution without bringing up abortion?
-
- [...welfare office...pro-lifers start debate...]
- >Perhaps we need to join these organizations in groups so we can shove
- >these pro-choicers back and force them to respect us. Either that or
- >we'll give them hearing aids, one or the other.
-
- You can have my respect, if you can respect the wishes of everyone else.
- It's just that the non-pro-choice side inherently does not produce dialogue.
- "No choice" leaves only one direction, so it's in (our) best interest to
- talk about it now while we have options.
-
- ["We [pro-choicers]," slam, humiliate, and degrade, so you better team up.]
- >> From one pro-life type who's into realism.
- >
- >I sure hope you're deeply into it because these pro-choicers, while
- >they'll claim I'm not accurately describing them, will take the first
- >chance they can get to smash your face into realism.
-
- I don't get what you're saying... If you are accurately describing us, then
- realism shouldn't come as a shock. (That's what I get out of it.) The
- other thing that you seem to be saying is that we are more "realistic".
-
- >But I don't think you're the kind of person who'd give them the chance. ]-)
-
- If you're anti-choice, you don't wanna give anyone a chance.
-
-
- -Richard
- (Continued?)
-