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- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
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- Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 06:55:52 EST
- From: Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Message-ID: <93005.065552ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Clarifying "Restrictions"
- References: <1993Jan3.194606.2536@netcom.com>
- <1993Jan4.224635.12058@crd.ge.com>
- Lines: 66
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- In article <1993Jan4.224635.12058@crd.ge.com> James G Keegan Jr says:
- >ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
-
- >|>I should like to point out that almost nobody seriously proposes that
- >|>there should be no restrictions whatever on the process of getting an
- >|>abortion.
- >
- >this statement is not correct.
- >
- >i know of no pro-choice organization seeking to restrict
- >abortions.
-
- "Support for total repeal of all abortion laws also came from
- some unexpected sources. Lyndon Johnson had appointed a
- Presidential Advisory Council on the Status of Women, with former
- Senator Maurine Neuberger of Oregon as its chairwoman. Its
- report, released in 1968, called for the repeal of all abortion
- laws." L. Tribe, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes
-
- "NAC came out in support of abortion as the woman's right. Women
- might seek abortions after twenty weeks with the most compelling
- reasons - a teenager afraid to tell, a meonpausal woman who had
- not realized she was pregnant, a woman who has just discovered
- that she is carrying a deformed child. A time-limit on abortion
- was thus seen as an arbitrary denial of these individual
- circumstances". S. Rowbotham, The Past is Before Us
-
- "The answer to later abortion is not further restrictions - the
- answer is access early in the pregnancy. Sex education and birth
- control counselling not only reduce the need for abortion per se
- but also reduce the number of later abortions. Ready access to
- an abortion facility eliminates delay. And full insurance
- coverage means that women must not spend time looking for money
- to pay for the procedure. Thus, people who oppose these measures
- are, in fact, contributing to the incidence of later abortions"
- CARAL (Canada), The Case Against Criminal Sanctions
-
- "Every woman has the fundamental right to decide for herself,
- free from government interference, whether or not to have an
- abortion. Today, more than ever, American families do not want
- the government to trample on their right to privacy by mandating
- how they must decide on the most intimate, personal matters.
- That is why even though Americans may differ on what
- circumstances for terminating a crisis pregnancy are consistent
- with their own personal moral views, on the fundamental question
- of who should make this personal decision, the majority of
- Americans agree that each woman must have the right to make this
- private choice for herself. Anti-choice proposals to ban
- abortions for sex-selection" or "birth control" are smokescreens
- designed to shift the focus of the debate away from this
- fundamental issue and trivialize the seriousness with which
- millions of women make this highly personal decision. Any
- government restriction on the reasons for which women may obtain
- legal abortions violates the core of this right and could force
- all women to publically justify their reasons for seeking an
- abortion."
- NARAL, Who Decides? A Reproductive Rights Issues Manual
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-
- Linda
- --
- Liberty in a free and democractic society does not require the
- state to approve such decisions but it does require the state
- to respect them....Justice B. Wilson, 1988
-