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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: No wonder!
Message-ID: <576@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 15:58:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 15:58:52 1985
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In article <488@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
>No wonder the pro-choicers tear their hair out over Ken Arndt's articles!

Actually, I giggle uncontralably (ask anybody!) and switch into
flame-mode. The walls of the kitchen in my dorm are papered with
print-outs of Ken's stuff (sans MY commentary) and provide hours of
enjoyable paradoy for the residents.

>Your style is not my style, Mr. Arndt...
>...But aside from the ad hominem stuff,
>you're a terrific writer, and I like your style.

I don't really believe you wrote this. (stop drinking so much! :-) :-) )

>One letter-writer calls this propaganda, and
>asks how its proponents would like "life education," a similar program
>to familiarize pupils with the gruesome details of abortion.

I think it's a great idea. In my school they called it "sex education"
and also taught about (horrors!) birth control. Every year, the same
people who lobbied for "pro-life" liobbied to have that class banned.

>Far too many young people see nothing wrong with a lot of
>things that their parents think immoral and bad.

Far too many parents were too narrowminded to try anything unusual.

>they can't bring themselves
>to go against the liberal principle that has been drummed into them all
>their lives.

As opposed to the open-minded conservatives who have carfully weighed
every side of the issue before deciding.

>That's why they think it's dirty pool when the right-to-lifers
>parade in front of abortion clinics waving dead fetuses and placards 
>depicting blood, guts and little limbs.

No, it's not "dirty pool" -- it's sensationalism. Maybe I should go
parade in front of an operating room carrying pictures of people having
their appendixes removed etc.

>Show the pregnant woman on the way to the clinic
>what she's REALLY doing, and she may not go through with the abortion.

And what if she does -- I suppose we lock her up?



-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"I was going to say something really profound, but I forgot what it was."
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