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From: ps@celit.fps.com (Patricia Shanahan)
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Subject: Re: equal rights?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 23:25:52 GMT
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In article <24326@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> llama@eleazar.dartmouth.EDU (Joe Francis) writes:
>Local NOW chapter presidents aside, what was/is NOW's position on
>women in combat.  Specifically, if we draft, should we draft women?
>If so, should drafted women be assigned combat duty?  

What is want to know is, if we decide to re-institute slavery, should
we enslave women, or just men?

(My answer to both questions is that I am so strongly opposed both to 
slavery in general, and to the specialized form of slavery called "a draft"
that I am not prepared to discuss who should be enslaved or drafted).
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