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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: politics
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.233311.38063@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:33:11 GMT
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- In <2310@unet.UUCP> heidi@wolf.net.com (Heidi Wolf) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug19.192004.4214@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
- > >In <1992Aug19.163821.17023@ncsu.edu> dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- > >> In article <onv3s2k@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- > >>
- > >> > I am pleased to see the Democrats taking such a strong
- > >> > pro-choice stand, in an election where their opponents have
- > >> > adopted a plank that includes NO EXCEPTIONS for victims of rape
- > >> > and incest. The Republicans are extremists.
- > >>
- > >> And the Democrats aren't extremists on abortion? The Democratic
- > >> platform plank on abortion indicates that they support ...
- > >> unrestricted abortion-on-demand throughout the term of pregnancy.
- > >
- > >This sounds like another Holtsinger lie. Can you document this?
- > >
- > >(Note that both Roe v. Wade and the Freedom of Choice Act allow for
- > >restrictions on abortion after viability, and the current situation
- > >is a de facto ban on third-trimester abortions for anything other
- > >than serious medical considerations.)
- >
- > Here is the relevant section, as reprinted verbatim from the 1992
- > Democratic Party platform. (Source: article in alt.politics.clinton;
- > thanks to Mary Jacobs for posting the information there.)
- >
- >
- > CHOICE. Democrats stand behind the right of every woman
- > to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, regardless of ability
- ===========================
- > to pay, and support a national law to protect that right.
- > It is a fundamental constitutional liberty that individual
- > Americans -- not government -- can best take responsibility for
- > making the most difficult and intensely personal decisions
- > regarding reproduction. The goal of our nation must be to make
- > abortion less necessary, not more difficult or more dangerous.
- > We pledge to support contraceptive research, family planning,
- > comprehensive family life education, and policies that support
- > healthy childbearing and enable parents to care most effectively
- > for their children.
-
- "Consistent with Roe v. Wade" means that restrictions are allowed. Thank
- you for the post showing Doug to be wrong once again.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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