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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: JohnM who wrote (10170)	1/28/2006 1:10:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541627

Do I gather from that comment that you think a policy in which wealthy and middle class women can exercise a right to abortion but poor women cannot is a mainstream policy; and an attempt to address that discrimination would be "far left" ? No, I think what I said is that there is no such thing as a right to an abortion, but rather a right to privacy. I think that imputing entitlements is a mindset of the far left. Even if the cost of an abortion were within the reach of the poor, I would find the notion of a right to one far left. The cost of a stamp is negligible but I don't have an entitlement to one. You may recall that yesterday I sort of defined far left as advocating for further progressivity from what we have now. Awarding an entitlement to an abortion would be a leftward move from where we are now.

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