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- From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: *Some* battles have been won
- Message-ID: <Bx9CAK.2EM@rice.edu>
- Summary: One more may be...stay tuned.
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- Organization: Definitely not Dennissteve's favorite place, now
- References: <1992Nov5.172458.23497@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:18:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.172458.23497@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
- >Eric Marsh made some interesting points. Imo, he didn't hit the nail on the
- >head, but he didn't hit his thumb either. To be precise, *some* battles have
- >been won but the war will rage on. Bill Clinton's election should assure
- >that the FOCA will be passed and that justices sympathetic to women's issues
- >will be appointed to the Supreme Court. The number of female members in both
- >houses of Congress jumped and anti-abortion referendums in Arizona and
- >Maryland were defeated.
- >
- >However, clinics will continue to be blockaded and doctors and patients will
- >continue to be harassed. (N.B. - the house of the judge who issued the
- >restraining order against demonstrators at the Robbinsdale Women's Clinic
- >is being picketed.) And members of the Religious and/or Radical Right will
- >continue to assure a high demand for abortion by opposing sex education and
- >effective birth control.
- >
- >It ain't over yet, folks.
-
- Not by a long shot, it isn't -- and we can't afford to become complacent
- now. Look at where that got His Majesty in the election -- 37% of the vote,
- and a spot on the unemployment line in nine weeks from this coming
- Wednesday. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, after all.
-
- >On a lighter note, Chaneyhall should be more amusing than ever. :-)
-
- Assuming he's around -- his caretakers at CSUS are *not* pleased with his
- recent outburst at me in Fidonet mail, and have put him on notice that he is
- either to straighten up, or the sponsorship of his nextnet account will
- vanish. I have a feeling he's going to a lot quieter than usual for a
- while...
-
- --PLH (I tried to tell him, but he wouldn't listen...)
-
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