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- From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: The Nurturing Network 1-800-TNN-4MOM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.230347.12911@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Aug15.203216.8998@csus.edu> <1992Aug20.204031.11038@noao.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:03:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.204031.11038@noao.edu>
- forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <1992Aug15.203216.8998@csus.edu>,
- >by chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney):
- >> In article <1992Aug12.224500.25686@noao.du
- >> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
-
- >>>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.
-
- >Let me make it clear, Steve. Mary Cunningham is pro-life. She contributes
-
- He seems to understand that she's pro-life, Suzanne. He said that her
- organization "included pro-choice people".
-
- >to the pro-life movement by providing non-abortive CHOICES for women. There
- >are hundreds of things an organization can provide a woman so that she will
- >not feel cornered into aborting. Mrs. Cunningham's modus operandi is to shame
- >universities, corporations, and other organizations, who like to call them-
- >selves "pro-choice", into providing MORE than that one choice. Under the
- >banner of choices for women, she convinces them to actually PROVIDE choices.
-
- >Don'tcha get it, Steve? Most self proclaimed pro-choicers, say like
- >Rocker/Cathi Cook, are pro-"choice" in name only. They do NOTHING to
- >provide women with any choice BUT abortion. Mary Cunningham is truly
- >pro-life/pro-choice. She has always been anti-abortion, but she was
- >galvanized into action by the miscarriage of her own child.
-
- >It was that simple.
-
- You said that there were no pro-choice people in any abortion
- alternative organization anywhere. Steve provided you with a
- counter-example, and it only takes one counter-example to prove a
- universal statement (which yours was) false.
-
- --
- "Best to err on the side of caution. Someone out there may actually give a
- damn what we say." - Jammer Jim Miller
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
-
-