Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:24:16 -0700
From: "Senex R. Rupicapra" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net>
Subject: Re: This Whole Abortion Debate...


Michael Chisari wrote:
> 
>    In a way, it's amazing that we have such a difference in viewpoints
> amongst anarchists on this issue.  However, in some ways it seems
> predictable.  Just don't ask me what those ways are.
> 
>    But in any case, can we please agree on the following issues?
> 
>    1.  Abortion is not a good thing.  Nobody (at least I hope) would
>        advocate abortion as a positive action that should be performed
>        as much as possible.
>    2.  Our society has created a number of social/economic circumstances
>        that makes abortion a much more necessary option than it should
>        be.
>    3.  It is not feasible to rid ourselves of abortion, it is much more
>        feasible to push for greater social, political, and economic
>        freedoms, so that young mothers are not forced towards this
>        last resort.
>    4.  It is not the role of the state to dictate the morality of
>        abortion.
>    5.  Pro-life fanatics who kill doctors are, along with being fascist
>        psychopaths, a perfect example of the sickening irony of
>        our society.
> 
>    Can we at least agree with these points?

	no.
 
	old goat.
	Who is to bell the cat?  It's easy to 
	propose impossible remedies.  --Aesop
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