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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Clarifying "Restrictions"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.060905.25121@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan3.194606.2536@netcom.com> <1993Jan4.224635.12058@crd.ge.com> <93005.065552ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:09:05 GMT
- Lines: 55
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- In article <93005.065552ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
- >
- >"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
-
- So much for groups that oppose any and all criminal sanctions against
- abortion. Big deal. We knew that already. Care to take a shot at disproving
- what Ray _actually_ said, i.e. "almost nobody seriously proposes that there
- should be no restrictions WHATEVER on the PROCESS of getting an abortion"
- (emphasis added)?
-
- - Kevin
-