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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Victory is at hand for Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <nyikos.721430753@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- References: <1da0gmINN1tt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <adams.720977803@spssig> <1992Nov5.162936.1392@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 21:25:53 GMT
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- In <1992Nov5.162936.1392@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley) writes:
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- >In article <adams.720977803@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>jxs52@po.CWRU.Edu (Jonathan Sheir) writes:
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- >>>All you Anti-abortionists might as well move onto a new pet project like
- >>>prayer in school or something. The abortion issue is moot as a political
- >>>issue. Clinton has won and will sign the Freedom of Choice Bill. It's
- >>>finally over. Thank God.
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- >>Any bill can be repealed...you won't have pro-choice leaders forever. The
- >>price of liberty is eternal vigilance...
-
- >True.... But *repealing* FOCA would a) be much more difficult than
- >vetoing FOCA, and b) have a much higher political cost.
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- Why do you think the Congress dropped FOCA after Democratic leaders
- announced that they had almost enough votes to override a veto?
- (My guess: 1. They did not have the votes they thought they had.
- 2. They were afraid the public would learn just how extreme FOCA was,
- and that would have hurt Clinton's chances.)
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- Peter Ny.
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