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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.news.group
Subject: Re: A Proposal for net.religion.coercion
Message-ID: <877@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 00:18:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 10 00:18:13 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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>It seems that people are lumping a variety of ``offenses'' together:
>
>	Book Burning
>	Witch Hunts
>	Repression of Gays
>	Attempts to restrict or eliminate Abortion
>
>In the first three cases, the people who are in favor of the item listed
>are attempting to restrict or regulate another's morality.  In the final
>case, the people who are in favor of the activity listed sincerely believe
>that another person is beign hurt besides the one culpable.  Please do not
>lump everything that you don't like together.  Further discussion does NOT
>belong on this newsgroup.

Well, I totally disagree with you. I consider the attempts to restrict
or eliminate abortion as the worst case of of religious
coercion in the US.  There may be a few who are not religiously
motivated in their anti-abortion stance, yet, the greatest pressures 
to end abortions are coming from religious groups. Without the
religious pressure, I doubt if we would see any serious attempts to 
restrict abortion.  These groups are trying to force their morality
and religious dogma on others who do not subscribe to the former'
religious views.  When I suggested to discuss abortion in the
proposed net.religion.coercion, I did not intend discussion
issues such as: 'Is the fetus a person or not a person?'
The place of such topic is net.abortion.  My intention is
to discuss the religious coercion aspect of the attempt to
make abortion illegal, and how to frustrate these efforts.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen
Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
(312)-979-7321
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