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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:39:44 -0500
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- From: KILBURN@WVSVAX.WVNET.EDU
- Subject: Re: re:re: freedom of speech
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- Hi, y'all:
- Dr. Pizz wrote the following:
-
- Besides, just as
- >people can turn off Howard Stern, they can go home, avoid the aabortion
- >clinic, and have the baby, or even come back aanother day to have the
- >abortion. Further, in most places there are mutliple plaaces one could
- >go. Finally, if a woman was desperate for an abortion and really
- >believed it was right, the pro-life people shouldn't be able to chnge
- >her mind, and she could then just walk right through...
-
- I hardly think turning off a radio is analogous to "going home." Even if
- it were, you need to check a few facts. In "most places", there is *no*
- place for a woman to receive an abortion -- at last count, 83% of U.S.
- counties have no such clinics.
-
- Kerry
- who thinks anti-abortion activists have the right to protest outside
- clinics, but wishes they would be polite :)
-