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From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: net.abortion proposed - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 21:40:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  8 21:40:20 1983
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inmet!nrh    Aug  5 19:36:00 1983

The problem is that abortion seems to cover several issues.
In particular, even though we have net.religion, one person who
answered my original suggestion by mail suggested that "abortion
is too important a topic to be ghettoized".  The people who have 
strong feelings on the abortion issue tend to feel it's OK to 
spread their views in net.religion (I assume), net.politics, net.women,
and probably lots of others.  Since it's a multifaceted issue ("Should
abortion be legal?" is one question, "Is abortion moral?" quite another)
("Are those two seperate questions" is a third) we've little hope
of putting it in one larger newsgroup unless we slant it specifically
for abortion.  

Perhaps "net.nobirth" or "net.contraception" (if only it would fit) would 
fill the bill, but I favor one specifically for abortion so I can choose
that one to ignore.