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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: control
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- References: <1992Aug20.134731.522@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug20.173537.3550@ncsu.edu> <1992Aug21.022504.11631@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 21:50:54 GMT
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- In <1992Aug21.022504.11631@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug20.173537.3550@ncsu.edu> dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >}In article <1992Aug20.134731.522@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- >}gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >}
- >}> The issue is control,
- >}
- >}The issue is killing.
-
- >I used to think so too, but all the talk about killing is a means to an end.
- >Among all the "pro-life" groups I have come into contact with (a fair number,
- >with a fairly wide geographical distribution) I found a few things in common.
- >Legislation is always on the agenda.
-
- Ditto for at least some pro-choice organizations, who brag about how
- much legislation they've lobbied for, for things like sex education
- (including, of course, school-based "reproductive health" clinics)
- and also some worthwhile social programs, but never about how much they,
- personally, have done for pregnant women.
-
- At the pro-choice rally here in Columbia, at the State Capitol,
- earlier this year, the state head of Planned Parenthood boasted about how
- her organization gives "more affordable abortions, because we are a
- nonprofit organization" [although I would class Faye Wattleton's
- > $150,000 a year salary as partly profit]; yet she said not a word about
- free abortions, not even for the poorest of women.
-
- >Also, so many make exceptions for rape and incest that the "killing"
- >angle is somewhat subject to the reason behind the killing.
-
- True. Killing is not the same thing as murder.
-
- >No, the issue isn't killing in and of itself, it is something else. The
- >killing plucks some heartstrings, and it attracts some well-meaning
- >people, but the reason behind it is elsewhere. Near as I can figure it
- >is control, although I may be wrong, but it sure isn't killing
-
- Why this incessant either/or talk? Have you been listening to too
- many NARAL speakers lately?
-
-