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- From: bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman)
- Subject: THE ABORTION ON DEMAND MYTH.
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- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:43:08 GMT
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- One of the favorite bellowings of the anti-abortion zealots is
- the "abortion on demand" sound bite. This catch phrase, although
- trumpeted often, has much implication, and no substance.
- The phrase implies a system that would provide a female a free
- abortion. The phrase implies that this would be provided free of
- any cost to the recepient. It would be provided to any woman, or
- any girl. It would be provided to minors without permission of a
- parnet being required. It implies that minors would be allowed a
- free abortion, without a parent being notified. It suggests that
- a woman would be able to obtain an elective abortion at any point
- in her pregnancy.
- This is the picture that the anti-abortion zealots paint about
- the Freedom Of Choice Act. They claim that the FOCA is "abortion
- on demand." This is, of course, a lie.
- The Freedom Of Choice Act is so lucid that even Holtsinger can
- understand it, even if he insists on misrepresenting it. The act
- is NOT abortion on demand. As the act is worded, the only rights
- that are guaranteed are those of a pregnant ADULT woman, PRIOR to
- FETAL VIABILITY, who can PAY HER OWN WAY, to have an abortion. I
- challenge Doug Holtsinger to show where in the FOCA does it allow
- for elective abortions past fetal viability, does it provide even
- one nickel of public funding for abortion, does it give any right
- to abortion to minors. Doug Holtsinger is a liar. He has told a
- pack of lies about abortion, about RvW, about the FOCA, about the
- state of abortions in this country, and about the position of the
- different pro-choice voices in this group.
- My challenge is directed at Holtsinger, because he has been an
- aggressive voice in the misrepresentation of the FOCA. If he has
- the gall to repost any of his lies about the FOCA, it will become
- necessary to discredit him again, by simply posting the FOCA word
- for word. Then we shall see if the public is as stupid as Dougie
- keeps telling them they are.
- So go to it, Doug. You post what you want, and I will type up
- the complete text of the FOCA. We'll see who lies, and who tells
- the truth.
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- "We're going to have the best educated American people in the
- world." Dan Quayle - Sept. 21, 1988
-