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- From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
- Subject: Official Resolutions of Feminists for Life
- Message-ID: <1JUL199209425915@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 1 Jul 1992 09:42 EST
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- This posting is designed to accompany an offer made by Dr. Jean Graham
- of Feminists for Life to entertain questions from contributors to this
- newsgroup. If found useful, there will be a periodic re-post.
-
- A public service message from RG
-
- Feminists for Life of America
- 811 E 47th Street
- Kansas City MO 64110
- (816) 753-2130
-
- Official Resolutions
-
- FFLA opposes abortion as an oppression of women and as discrimination
- against unborn children, and also opposes euthanasia as discriminatory,
- selective killing. Positions on related issues are:
-
- ( 1) We support the combination of the Human Life Amendment and the
- Equal Rights Amendment as long as it has wording to render it
- either pro-life or abortion-neutral.
- ( 2) We support the right of women to have all information necessary
- to make informed decisions concerning abortion, including but not
- limited to the biology of fetal development, the physical and
- psychological health risks of medical and surgical intervention,
- and alternatives to abortion.
- ( 3) We oppose unnecessary hysterectomies and mastectomies.
- ( 4) We support policies, by government or employers, which enable
- families to care for their children and other dependents, including
- including family leave and child care.
- ( 5) Whereas reproduction involves both men and women, both men and
- women have the obligation to be responsible for children both
- before and after birth; we therefore support child support
- enforcement efforts.
- ( 6) We believe that full-time child rearing must be recognized as a
- legitimate career choice option.
- ( 7) We oppose school-based clinics as a misdirection of health
- resources, as there is no evidence that they decrease pregnancies
- and they act as a wedge for abortion.
- ( 8) We support boycotts of sellers of pornography.
- ( 9) We oppose any legally sanctioned (i.e., enforceable) contracts for
- surrogacy.
- (10) We believe that after the child is born, surrogacy should be handled
- like any other adoption in that the birth mother has the right to
- change her mind and keep her baby within a given period of time.
- (11) Embryos must not be destroyed in the process of in-vitro fertilization.
- (12) We oppose the manufacture and sale of any birth control method that
- acts as an abortifacient, such as the IUD. The insensitivity to the
- fact that a new life has begun is matched by an insensitivity to the
- mother, as can be seen by the health problems with such methods and
- by the frequent lack of information given women about abortifacient
- effects.
- (13) We oppose the sale and manufacture of any birth control method which
- is known to create undue health risks.
-
- Official Resolutions (cont.)
-
- (14) We endorse natural family planning as the safest means of family
- planning in regard to health risks, one that requires the responsible
- participation of both the man and the woman, and the only method
- which serves the rich and the poor equally well.
- (15) Apart from these resolutions we take no stand on contraception.
- Abortion kills; methods which prevent conception are another issue.
- (16) We oppose the death penalty.
- (17) The executive board shall be empowered to endorse legislation
- regarding RICO laws to prevent their abuse in cases involving no
- monetary gain (such as has happened with suits brought against
- pro-lifers).
- (18) We take no position on homosexuality, on purely religious issues,
- military issues, or any other issue which is unrelated to our
- central concerns.
- (19) We take no position on rescues.
- (20) Consistent with our philosophy of the interrelatedness of human
- beings, and particularly the obligation of parents to ensure the
- physical, mental, and emotional well-being of their children, we
- support laws encouraging parental involvement when a minor seeks
- an abortion.
- (21) The idea of population control is a way of blaming women's natural
- child-bearing ability for problems actually caused by greed, care-
- lessness and ignorance. We see the violence of killing children or
- forced sterilization as unconscionable and we support non-violent
- solutions to environmental problems.
- (22) We affirm that women are responsible for the well-being of their
- pre-natal children and should avoid abusing drugs. Punitive
- measures, however, are counterproductive and may actually encourage
- abortion and avoidance of treatment. We call on drug treatment
- providers to give priority to pregnant women, and support laws that
- mandate such treatment.
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