regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) (08/21/85)
>only pregnant women and perhaps formerly >pregnant women should decide the issue. How can any woman who >has never faced an unwanted pregnancy know what it will be like? >I think that deciding ahead of time whose opinions have value and >whose do not, without any regard for the opinion or the ideas >from which it is derived, qualifies in every way for: PREJUDICE. Galen, nobody is _deciding_ who should decide.* A number of people, myself included, have stated that they think that women should decide the issue and the reasons for that "should-ness" have many bases. However, no one has suggested removing the voting rights of men on this, or any other specific issue. We aren't organizing anti-vote rallies in the street. Rather, people are stating their personal, specific opinions. Lots of people don't vote on lots of issues -- for lots of reasons. That isn't the same as removing anybody's rights. I don't think men should decide the issue, and I discuss this stance with my friends. I don't pass petitions, and it really doesn't sound to me like anybody else is either.* *Not even Marcia Baer, who is simply expressing her personal viewpoint. Doesn't this net.topic have enough hystrionics without dreaming up more? Adrienne Regard