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From: qv@mot.UUCP (Brad Castalia)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous Ironies
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 13:04:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 13:04:14 1985
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Because the controversy concerning the legal status of a woman's right
to choose abortion currently seems to pit two irasible camps
in heated and apparently ireconcilable debate does not mean that
some resolution cannot be achieved.  Resolution for social issues
generally means that the debate has moved on to a higher level of
awareness/discussion and left behind matters that have come to be
understood/accepted.  In this regard, Ms. Quigley's perseverence
in the face of the regresionists is very laudatory.  However, we
must move on!  This has been my greatest disappointment with the
Right-to-life and, since the demise of the ERA effort, current
progressive women's groups.

The arguments almost always devolve into meaninglessness: when is
an embryo a child?; what is life?; etc.  People still argue about
what is god, or if such exists, but most progressive people have
been able to move on a bit (unless they're 12 years old).
Progressives need to focus, in this case, on the next step after
Roe vs. Wade and achieve a recognition of human rights for the
special case of a pregnant woman instead of the current focus on
the viability of an embryo.  This could take us forward again to
the real need for the ERA!

There's more....

Brad Castalia