Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: A Time for Anger Message-ID: <3515@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 22:04:17 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.3515 Posted: Fri Aug 24 22:04:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 06:35:32 EDT References: <122@bsdgvax.UUCP>, <978@shark.UUCP> <395@loral.UUCP>, <116@scc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 34 >(Don Steiny) > > It seems to me that historically people get rights >when they take them. There is no central authority >that hands out rights. An example is women. To this day >they do not have the same rights as men. > > I am old enought to remember the civil rights movement. >I remember when I was a child I went to the south and they >had separate bathrooms for "colored men" and "men". I thought >it was confusing. > > One thing that did not happen is that one morning >all the white people got up and said,"hey, by gosh, we have been >denying black people and other minorities rights all this time >and, starting today will give everyone equal rights." What really >happened was that black people got very very angry, marched on >Washington, refused to yield to whites and eventually burned down >parts of cities. It became a simple practical matter. Giving black >people part of the rights they were demanding was more cost effective >than not. True. But it doesn't follow that the only humans who have certain rights are the ones that are able to take them (by force?). People have advocates, you know. Blacks and women have advocates for their rights who are not blacks or women. The unborn humans certainly can't argue for their own rights, but does that mean they should have no advocates who do? -- Paul Dubuc {cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbscc!pmd The true light that enlightens every one was coming into the world... (John 1:9)