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- From: keegan@acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.)
- Subject: Re: TOO YOUNG TO CHOOSE
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- References: <1992Nov3.210902.3556@ncsu.edu> <1d728aINNfb@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <nyikos.721340763@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <BxIII3.EIx.1@cs.cmu.edu> <s6qpd0o@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:14:06 GMT
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- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- ->garvin+@cs.cmu.edu writes:
- ->|nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- ->|#Granted, for some it is a major inconvenience. That's why I prefer a 4-hour
- ->|#waiting period. Gives the woman time to go out and have lunch, or
- ->|#whatever, and study the information on risks, etc. without clinic employees
- ->|#hurrying her along.
-
- ->|The sidewalk harassers here frequently urge patients entering the
- ->|clinic to go to a nearby restaurant, eat something, and think over
- ->|their decision. I see that Petey Honey joins them in either their
- ->|ignorance or their deviousness. The patients always point out that
- ->|they have been instructed not to eat before the procedure, and they
- ->|often ask if the harasser thinks that they're stupid enough to disobey
- ->|a doctor's instructions. [...]
-
- ->This is amazingly disgusting.
-
- ->Every time waiting periods are discussed in this group by
- ->pro-lifers, I am more & more convinced that they're a coverup
- ->for an attempt to prevent women from exercising their rights.
-
- ->We have Petey Honey & other sidewalk "counsellors" advocating
- ->that they do something that prevent them from having even minor
- ->surgery, and endanger their lives if they do.
-
- ->We have Overpeck talking in his condescending way about women
- ->under stress making bad decisions, and about how they need
- ->counselling.
-
- ->We see terrorists frightening abortion providers into giving
- ->up their practices.
-
- ->They're trying to do an end-run around the law. Having failed
- ->to make abortion illegal, they now try to make it difficult for
- ->a woman to carry her decision through.
-
- you're right. hell, some of these anti-choice types
- even want to imprison women for having the abortions
- they want to ban.
-
-