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From: mjv@ihu1e.UUCP (Vlach)
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Subject: Re: informed choices?
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:33:36 EDT
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> > P.S.  I know this will flame a lot of people, but...since men never have 
> > to worry about getting pregnant, I never value their opinions about 
> > abortion too much.
> >                           Marcia Bear 
> 
> I know this will flame a lot of people, but . . . since there is only one
> woman on the Supreme Court, the President is an anti-feminist man, and
> State legislatures are run by men, we don't have to value Marcia Bear's
> opinions about abortion too much.  If we are upright in our way of life
> and unstained by male guilt, we need no Moorish darts nor bow nor quiver
> loaded with poisoned arrows, Marcia, to respond to feminist prejudice.
> 
> 				-- Matt Rosenblatt

I was discussing value of opinions from a common sense point of view, not on
a legal basis.
I don't think this is feminist prejudice.  This is similar to placing less
value on childless people's opinions of raising children than actual
parents, or of unmarried people's views on marriage vs. married people.
Since unwanted pregnancy is something a man NEVER has to worry about
happening to HIMSELF, I think men's views on abortion are not as relevant
as women's.  My SO also holds this opinion, as do some other men I know,
but I guess they are suffering from "feminist prejudice" too?  It just
seems logical to me.  I never said everybody else had to think this way,
but I am sure a lot of them do.  The whole idea of 11 old men deciding if I
can have an abortion always had made me a little uneasy.

Marcia Bear