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From: egs@epsilon.UUCP (Ed Sheppard)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Gosh, I hope this doesn't bury me
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 14:19:14 EST
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Nancy Parson writes:
>                          (By the way, pro-lifers, it is your unwillingness
> to deal with this issue, more than anything else in my opinion, that
> discredits you in the eyes of many women who see you as utterly unconcerned
> for them.  You are willing to tell them to sacrifice for the life of an
> unborn child, but are you willing to insist on men "sacrificing careers"
> so that the burden is shared?)

This is n'th time we've heard this sort of statement. I'm getting a tad
sick of it myself. I'd like to find out how universal this type of
sentiment is in the abortion debate. What do you (both pro-choice and
pro-life) believe motivates the opposition. Do you consider them to
be heartless, unconcerned, etc. pursuing a (primarily) politically
motivated campaign, determined to shove their ideology/moral standards
down other people's throats? Or are they honest in their convictions
but simply misguided? Consider this a poll: respond to me
and I'll summarize to the net in a while.

BTW, Nancy. I'd be interested in how many notes you got from people
about following up in net.women in addition to net.abortion. Recently,
I followed up to an article here that was cross-posted to another
(or maybe two other) newsgroup(s) and forgot to edit the distribution.
I got several notes admonishing me for it (quite politely, I'm happy
to say). As you can see, I'm being more careful now. Do net.women
readers want to see the abortion debate going on there?

					Ed Sheppard
					Bellcore