dr_who@umcp-cs.UUCP (07/31/83)
Being the "pinheaded idiot" who spread the abortion issue to net.politics, I feel I should respond to this unfair charge. Insofar as both sides seek certain LEGISLATION (either to prohibit abortion, or to make it available to poor women), it is definitely a political issue. Perhaps I should have posted my comments to net.philosophy, since it is ALSO a philosophical issue. But I certainly wasn't going to bother net.women with it, after so many complaints (which are legitimate -- it doesn't particularly belong there -- not MY comments, anyway). Second, if my critic had READ it, he/she/it would have discovered that my article aimed to REDUCE the amount of debate by showing that neither side's arguments were convincing! And it must have done some good, because nobody has replied to the CONTENT of my article yet. Anyway, I agree that lots of people would like to unsubscribe, and that that's a good reason for filing the issue away in a separate newsgroup. -- Paul Torek, U of MD College Park