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From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: What does ERA have to do with abortion?
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 15:07:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 15:07:43 1983
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In the Chicago Tribune today, the article describing the defeat of the
ERA in the House stated "Opponents ... claimed that a vote for the ERA
was a vote for abortion." I feel really dumb, because I don't see what
one has to do with the other. Could someone explain the opponents' reasons?
Is it because once women can no longer be discriminated against, there
can never be anti-abortion legislation? Since abortion is already legal,
I don't understand this as a reason to be against ERA. But then, I can't
understand ANY of the opposing views.

                                   B. Walsh