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- From: chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney)
- Subject: Re: The Nurturing Network 1-800-TNN-4MOM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.203216.8998@csus.edu>
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- Organization: California State University: Sacramento
- References: <92215.152601ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> <1992Aug12.224500.25686@noao.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 20:32:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.224500.25686@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <92215.152601ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>, by Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>:
- >>
- >> While the majority of the quotes are Canadian, I am
- >> sure Ms. Forgach if you did a little reading on the
- >> topic you will find that feminist organizations
- >> around the world have been lobbying and funding
- >> such initiatives as you described above.
- >
- >No, Linda. They've been talking the talk, but they haven't been
- >walking the walk. Walk into ANY, and I mean ANY abortion alternative
- >organization ANYWHERE, and you will not find even one pro-"choicer" among
- >them. It always has been and always will be the pro-lifers who provide any
- >non-abortive help to pregnant women in trouble.
-
- I beg to differ. The Nurturing Network, run by Mary Cunningham ??? (I
- forgot her last name), which supplied a diligent and accomodating
- program to help women with crisis pregnancies (and which is dominated
- vastly by female workers), according to several sources, included
- pro-choice people.
-
- Since she's gotten directly involved in pro-life rallies and such,
- since then, I'm not sure if there are any left in TNN anymore.
- IMHO, she should have kept herself distanced from the Pro-Life
- Movement. She was doing extremely well for pro-lifers already, as TNN
- was dominated by them, and she had Kate Michelman living on the Fringe
- because the NARAL wouldn't touch TNN with a ten foot pole and TNN had
- the centrist image of having pro-choice staffers - a bridge between
- the two movements. The National Right to Life Committee would have
- gained pointers because, despite the pro-choice populace, they hailed
- TNN, and the NARAL and PP would have looked like numbnutskulls because
- they'd have slammed TNN in the name of their extremist agenda.
-
- TNN was, until Mary began seriously identifying herself with pro-life
- movements, a public relations nightmare for the pro-choice movement
- because they do not have the tools necessary to create their own TNN,
- and in addition, it would just be known as a copy-cat maneuver. It
- also would not have the ideological diversity that TNN had.
-
- >> The
- >> main difference is that the feminist groups want
- >> to see this provided to all women in society, not
- >> just those able to meet the requirements of
- >> organizations that may or may not be operating
- >> in their area.
- >
- >
- >Being pregnant and in need of help doesn't sound like stringent "requirements"
- >whatsoever to me. But do not ever expect an organization devoted to providing
- >alternatives to abortion to _ever_ aid someone in _obtaining_ an abortion.
- >That's just garbage.
-
- Naw, Suzanne! Let them have a national abortion alternative plan in
- the Government.
-
- The problem is, no one would know how to run it except for those who
- run the current system of abortion alternatives: the folks from the
- various crisis pregnancy centers in America. They would, by default,
- be the only people that anyone could find specialized enough to do the
- job.
-
- Now, the pro-aborts wouldn't want to have pro-lifers taking over yet
- another government agency, now would they? Which is why you'll _never_
- see any help from them, to supply alternatives to abortion, in
- society.
-
- >> Linda
- >
- >Suzanne.
-
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