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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Other Flip-Floppers on abortion
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:19:59 GMT
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- In <1992Aug20.224746.5259@oakhill.sps.mot.com> pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug18.222436.21732@sequent.com> bills@sequent.com (Bill Sears) w
- > >
- > > PRO-CHOICE IS _NOT_ THE SAME AS PRO-ABORTION
- >
- > This is true. But since the Democratic platform calls for
- > public funding of abortions in Medicare, isn't it fair to call
- > that a pro-abortion stance, since they are using tax dollars
- > to support that act?
-
- No, it's not fair. If they were paying people as an *incentive* to get
- an abortion, that would be pro-abortion. Simply paying for the abortion
- could be called anti-later-term-abortion, since almost half of the women
- who have an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy are delayed because of
- problems, usually financial, in arranging an abortion. It could be
- called anti-second-trimester-abortion, since an estimated 22% of the
- Medicaid-eligible women who had second trimester abortions would have
- had first-trimester abortions if the lack of public funds had not resulted
- in delay in trying to raise funds. Or it could be called pro-sound-fiscal-
- policy, since for every $1 spent by the government to pay for abortions for
- poor women, about $4 is saved in public medical and welfare expenditures
- incurred as a result of the unintended birth. (The savings from supporting
- contraceptive services is even higher.) But I don't see any way that you
- could call it a "pro-abortion" stance.
-
- (Data courtesy of the Alan Guttmacher Institute.)
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
-