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- From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
- Subject: Re: LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.012835.7795@Cadence.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:28:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.180446.4640@ncsu.edu> dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >Only about 30% of Americans support unrestricted abortion on demand,
- >which has been defined by Keegan et. al. as the only position which
- >is truly "choice". Your 71% figure is obviously way too high.
- >Many Americans do support abortion in certain restricted instances
- >(for example, life of the mother, rape, early abortion), and that's
- >where I believe you got your figure from. So your claim is pure
- >bullshit as I had originally suspected.
-
- Dear Old Dougie, the *majority* of Americans are pro-choice with regard to
- first-trimester abortions. "Unrestricted abortion on demand" means all the
- way through the ninth month, and you are correct that only 30% of Americans
- support that -- but you seem to assert that 70% of Americans are against all
- abortions exept for rape, incest, etc., and you are wrong.
-
- The Republican platform, and George Herbert Hoover Bush, specifically says
- they are against abortions, EVEN IN THE FIRST TRIMESTER, except in the case
- of rape, incest, health risk to the mother, or if the pregnant woman is
- a daughter or granddaughter of the President or Vice-President (in the case
- of Quaylee and Shrub). (Actually, the Republican platform is more restrictive
- than Shrub claims to be.)
-
- -Pete Zakel
- (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)
-
- Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's
- supposed to do.
- -- R. A. Heinlein
-