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- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!cookc
- From: cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker)
- Subject: Re: WILL THE REAL MISOGYNISTS PLEASE STAND UP? Case 1.
- Message-ID: <vzwyq6m@rpi.edu>
- Keywords: abortion, rape, sexual battery
- Nntp-Posting-Host: aix.rpi.edu
- References: <nyikos.715387086@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:30:08 GMT
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
-
- >In my short time with talk.abortion, I have already seen how some
- >pro-choicers are ready to label someone a misogynist or woman-hater
- >simply because said person fits the "pro-life" label better than the
- >"pro-choice" label.
-
- And many more wait to judge until they see actual evidence of it.
- In most cases, it isn't long in coming. With you, I saw it when
- you said you might "allow" an abortion if the woman would otherwise
- be "better off dead". So if her quality of life was ONLY reduced by,
- say, 90%, it seems it would be perfectly hunky-dory with you if
- she gave up that 90% for some random (to you) fetus.
-
- > These people are barking up the wrong tree. If they would only
- >open their eyes a bit, they would see evidence of misogyny from some
- >of the very people they defend as caring about women.
-
- [allegations of abuse deleted]
-
- I hate to break it to you, Nyikos, but your little story here has
- absolutely NO bearing on whether YOUR views are misogynistic. I
- believe the term is "red herring".
-
- >Via the pro-life grapevine, I was put in touch with a truly dedicated
- >pro-life feminist who said she would try to find out about subsequent
- >developments in the case. [She moved to Ft. Lauderdale after the arrest
- >in question.] What with Hurricane Andrew, the answers might take a
- >while in coming.
-
- Ft. Lauderdale was virtually unaffected by the storm. The worst
- damage was in southwest Dade County, in the neighborhood where I
- grew up and my mother (used to, until the storm) live.
-
- >Peter Ny.
-
- -rocker
-