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From: krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz)
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Subject: Re: Pro-Life Feminism:  Different Voices
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 12:18:00 EST
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Anyone interested in the following critical issue:

> "Can you be a pro-life feminist?"  This book not only answers "yes"
> to this question, but presents an argument that pro-choice support
> of abortion-on-demand is inconsistent with a radical (i.e. root,
> or basic) feminist stand.

should get their hands on the December issues of the Village Voice,
in which Nat Hentoff has been running a series of articles on
Congresswoman Mary Oakar, (from a Midwest state, perhaps Ohio)
who is a leading Representative on women's rights (young mothers,
the elderly, housing subsidies, etc.) who follows the NOW line
to the letter on every issue but abortion, on which she is pro-life,
and therefore, despite her outstanding track record fighting for
women's rights in Congress, anathema to feminist political groups.

Hentoff's columns bring quite effectively to light the hypocrisies
and contradictions such a situation show in organizations like NOW.
Personally I'm pro-choice, but the Mary Oakar story is fascinating.
A must-read, for those so inclined.

- Michael Krantz

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