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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6387)	2/23/2001 5:05:10 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

I can't see it as a compromise. The current situation is one where the pro-choice side's position is accepted by the law (or by judicial interpretations of the law). A compromise would be something in between the two sides position by definition. I think it's natural for us to always think that we gave up more than the other guy, but in this case I see a compromise. The pro-choice camp started out as the abortion rights camp. Just the shift from abortion rights to choice was part of the compromise. Yes, most abortion is now grudgingly legal, but the abortion rights folks are a long way from their opening position. The government suffers abortions to occur, but it doesn't support them. It doesn't help people who can't afford them or support them overseas or require medical insurance to pay for them. It doesn't require hospitals or doctors to provide them and has allowed the availability to deteriorate to the point where many women have to travel impossibly long distances to get one. And there are restrictions on late term abortions. Now that may not be as much of a compromise as you would like, but you can't say it's not a compromise. Karen