Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!mot!qv From: qv@mot.UUCP (Brad Castalia) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Miscellaneous Ironies Message-ID: <208@mot.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 13:04:14 EDT Article-I.D.: mot.208 Posted: Thu Aug 22 13:04:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Aug-85 20:22:54 EDT References: <930@bunker.UUCP>, <1833@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ Lines: 25 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