Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!unc!goodrum From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: what do you fear Message-ID: <104@unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 21:13:36 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.104 Posted: Fri Apr 26 21:13:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Apr-85 23:29:23 EDT References: Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 18 Summary: Adrienne Regard writes: > >>> But I would be content to let the women -- the people who really have to >>> make the personal decision -- decide. What do you fear? Since the majority of voters are women, the issue could be decided by them if it were resolved democratically (i.e, by elected state and national legislators, not by unelected,virtually unaccountable Supreme Court justices.) > >What I am suggesting is that those who have to act on the basis of the laws >decide the issue. Fer instance, I don't work at GM, so I don't vote on >GM/labor contracts. > Are you willing to apply this standard to all laws?? For instance, should laws regulating various businesses be decided only by people who own a business?? Cloyd Goodrum III