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- Subject: Re: Victory is at hand for Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <BxLzD9.A8G.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:07:55 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
- Keywords: ignorant pro-forcers
- Summary: Nyikos avoids the mainstream press
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- In article <nyikos.721430753@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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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?
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- I understood that it was because anti-abortion legislators had
- succeeded in adding so many amendments to the FOCA that no one
- wanted it to pass, and that the sponsors had decided to wait until
- the new Congress was in session. With Clinton as president, there
- is no need to try to make the bill attractive to a veto-proof
- majority.
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- #(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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- I wonder why Petey Honey ignored the reports on television and in
- the newspapers and chose to guess about it instead. Maybe he
- likes looking silly - asserting that "they were afraid the public
- would learn just how extreme FOCA was" when, in fact, the FOCA was
- rejected for being too watered down, is absurd.
-
- Susan
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