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From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-I: sex-ism. Scheetz should get off the list!
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:39:58 -0600 (CST)


    As Louis P has pointed out, raising the issue of abortion seems
an almost deliberate attempt at simply wasting bandwidth and
baiting others to be really wasteful of it also.  From now on I
shall neither read Scheetz nor waste words on him. But any such
slimy remarks as he has made require at least one rejoinder.

    As I said at the time of the Jazewski flames, I regard attacks
on abortion from anyone pretending to be either marxist or working
class as acts of class treason. As I also said at that time, I
regard even the claim that abortion is a moral issue (rather than
a perfectly whimsical decision for the woman involved) as itself
an immoral and misogynous act: it is an illegitimate effort to place
social or moral pressure on a woman to consider other than her
own interests in deciding whether to have an abortion or not. I

    While political/legal threats to abortion rights are still
most serious, yet more serious at the present time are the ways
in which such social/"moral" pressures confuse women, particularly
young women, and make it difficult for them to exercize their legal
rights.

    I hope Gay does not let Scheetz's piggish attacks hamper heraagf
in participating in this list.

    Carrol








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