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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Questions for Pro-Choice advocates
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.053333.24387@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan8.212721.22962@hemlock.cray.com> <1993Jan10.012911.14891@rotag.mi.org> <kj+3a+d@rpi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:33:33 GMT
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- In article <kj+3a+d@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1993Jan8.212721.22962@hemlock.cray.com> mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>But how can women approach economic
- >>>parity without reproductive freedom? Do you not see how
- >>>unequal reproductive rights would hamper women in the
- >>>workplace?
- >
- >>Pray tell, how would the mandating of certain abortion METHODS, e.g.
- >>C-section versus D&E, "hamper women in the workplace"? This discussion
- >>_is_ focussed on late-term abortions, isn't it?
- >
- >Are you aware that C-section is invasive surgery, requiring a rather
- >significant incision? The recovery time for C-section (as for any
- >surgery) varies widely, from out of bed in a few days, to a lifetime
- >of significant pain. The D&E, on the other hand, does not require
- >the cutting and resewing of muscle, skin, and membrane that a C-section
- >does.
-
- And what percentage of these procedures are performed "in the workplace" of
- the women receiving them, do you suppose?
-
- This is NOT just an attempt to be facetious, Cathi. I hear that phrase
- "hampered in the workplace" a lot. I'm not quite sure how that's supposed to
- be different from the more generic term "economic oppression". Is the
- difference just some gratuitous emotionalism, or does it imply that only
- WORKING women get economically oppressed in this manner (which sounds to me
- like a sneaky way of slighting women who choose to be homemakers)?
-
- - Kevin
-