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- From: mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The Nurturing Network 1-800-TNN-4MOM
- Summary: Chaney: Older but defiitely ot wiser.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.102619.24858@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 10:26:19 GMT
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- Well, I have had to rearrange my access to Internet, but I am finally back.
- I see not much has changed. Please indulge me while I reply to an ancient
- article.
-
- > Chaney (haven't y'all gotten rid of him yet?) dreams:
-
- > Funny, how Planned Parenthood supplies, besides birth control,
- > absolutely nothing that would reduce the number of abortion customers
-
- It's funny how birth control is the most effective means of preventing
- "abortion customers." The statement above is like saying, "Besides
- roach killer, Orkin supplies absolutely nothing that would reduce the
- number of roaches."
-
- > 1) Crisis pregnancy assistance:
- > - Planned Parenthood has a negative (read: black hole) record on
- > providing favorable conditions for women to carry babies to term
- > if it proves the least bit convenient.
-
- Gee, all of that low-cost prenatal care doesn't count for anything, right?
- So what have YOU done to "provide favorable conditions for women to carry
- babies to term"? You must be as bad as you claim Planned Parenthood is!
-
- > 2) Housing:
- > - Poor, money-strapped pro-lifers do more to provide pre and
- > postnatal support (including homes) for pregnant women. PP does
- > no such thing.
-
- PP is not in the housing business, twit. They don't claim to provide
- every service under the sun. But perhaps if people like you wouldn't
- encourage companies like AT&T to defund them, they MIGHT have the
- money to get involved in such programs.
-
- (Aside about AT&T, from Aug. 1992 Gwinnett Citizens For Choice newsletter:
- "Planned Parenthood places specila emphasis on confrontig the epidemic of
- too-early childbirth amog American teenagers through First Things First,
- an initiative launched in 1990. First Things First advocates the right
- of every child to accomplish first things - education, the attainment of
- physical ad emotional maturity and sound, healthy ego development - before
- he or she assumes the resposibility of parenthood. The goal of the program
-
- is to reduce by half, over the decade, the number of American teens who
- become pregnant and give birth annually. This is the program that AT&T
- abandoned. The company was pressured by a radical group to defund Planned
- Parenthood. You have the power to change this. You ca defund AT&T.")
-
- > 3) Alternatives:
- > - Planned Parenthood? Alternatives to abortion? Do the letters
- > N, O, T and ! (guess which order) have any meaning?
-
- Yes, as is in "Chaney actually knows what he is talking about - NOT!
- Chaney has done reserach o Planned Parenthood - NOT! Chaney has been
- inside a Planned Parenthood in his life - NOT! Chaney treats the
- propaganda of uneducated right-wing zealots with rational skepticism - NOT!"
-
- >> 4) Sex Education:
- >> - After the talk about birth control, does PP ever tell the students
- >> that abstinence is as EQUAL an option as sex? Once again, the
- >> letters N, O, T and ! (and !!!) bear great resemblance here, to the
- >> answer to this question. (And no, PatricKKK Harumphrey, I did not
- >> assert abstinence > sex. I said that according to PP, abstinence
- >> != option worth teaching.)
-
- Again, Chaney is right - the letters N, O and T (and the CHARACTER, not
- the LETTER !, I see you don't even know your alphabet yet, Chaney) do
- apply to this situation, as in, "Chaney has the smallest shred of
- evidence to back up his absurd and rabid claims - NOT!"
- --
- "Republicans understand the importance of the bondage between parent and
- child." - Dan Quayle at a GOP rally in Sept. '88 in Springfield, Illinois
-
- Ferrari (mills@rolf.stat.uga.edu)
-