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| Source | Yoshie Furuhashi |
| Date | 99/08/15/13:20 |
| Hi Ellen: >The anti-abortion folks know very well that >these limits will have little impact on the >number of abortions performed. Another reason why there can't be negotiation is that the anti-abortion movement is not fundamentally concerned about the number or kind of abortion, so there is nothing to negotiate about from their point of view either. What they object to is the very idea that women don't pay for sex by pregnancy and child-birth. That's why they are against sex education, free distribution of contraception at school, homosexuality, etc. as well. The root problem for them is not abortion per se; what they rage against is the changed and changing social capacity and status of women--our independence from men, marriage, motherhood, and other gender-defining institutions. You know this already, but I figure I'll mention it on the list anyway. Yoshie |
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