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Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Re: pro-choice groups
Article-I.D.: trsvax.225
Posted: Wed Mar  2 12:05:12 1983
Received: Wed Mar  9 03:46:41 1983
References: tekmdp.1800

I am interested in knowing where Cindy McMeekin gets her information that
80% percent of Americans are pro-choice.  Her status on the NARAL board
makes requires that her figures be taken with a grain of salt.
According to the Associated Press (which is, as far as I know, officially
non-biased on the subject), their surveys show that (quoting from last
Saturday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram) "On abortion, surveys find that 73
percent want it limited to certain cases or banned".  Perhaps her (and
many other persons) belief that abortion is so popular is due to the fact
that the same article stated that, of the 104 key people who decide what
we see on television, 97 percent believe a woman has a right to decide
for herself about having an abortion.  The point of the newspaper article
was that television executives were not showing to americans an unbiased
view on subjects such as abortion, homosexuality, religion, etc.  From
now on, before you throw out numbers, explain where you get your figures
from.

I personally feel the arguments about abortion are useless.  The two
viewpoints start off with two different presuppositions.  Anti-abortionists
(who are not "anti-choice", just "anti-abortionist") believe that the human
fetus is a human being, and thus subject to the laws of the constitution
(including the right not to be murdered), whereas pro-abortionists believe
that the human fetus is not a human being, and thus the woman is free to
deal with this "thing" attached to her as she sees fit.  What I'm interested
in knowing is: Has anybody done any tests to prove or disprove whether or
not a fetus is a human being?  I don't mean just the congressional arguments,
but real live unbiased (if there is such a thing) laboratory tests.  It seems
to me, that until the results of such tests are in, we should give the fetus
"the benefit of the doubt" and not allow abortions, just in case it actually
is murder.