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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: standing firm
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 17:15:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 17:15:04 1985
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>only  pregnant  women  and  perhaps  formerly
>pregnant  women  should  decide the issue.  How can any woman who
>has never faced an unwanted pregnancy know what it will be  like?

>I think that deciding ahead of time whose opinions have value and
>whose  do  not,  without  any regard for the opinion or the ideas
>from which it is derived, qualifies in every way for:  PREJUDICE.

Galen, nobody is _deciding_ who should decide.*  A number of people, myself
included, have stated that they think that women should decide the issue
and the reasons for that "should-ness" have many bases.  However, no one
has suggested removing the voting rights of men on this, or any other
specific issue.  We aren't organizing anti-vote rallies in the street.
Rather, people are stating their personal, specific opinions.

Lots of people don't vote on lots of issues -- for lots of reasons.  That
isn't the same as removing anybody's rights.  I don't think men should
decide the issue, and I discuss this stance with my friends.  I don't pass
petitions, and it really doesn't sound to me like anybody else is either.*

*Not even Marcia Baer, who is simply expressing her personal viewpoint.

Doesn't this net.topic have enough hystrionics without dreaming up more?

Adrienne Regard