Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (17169)	12/4/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

What is my position on abortion, brees? The back alley quote was a response to Ish, whose seems to favor something fairly close to an absolute ban. I.e. abortion for medical reasons only in the first trimester, a total ban after that. There may be a middle ground on abortion, but the so-called PBA debate doesn't hold out much hope. My objection to the PBA law is not that I think abortion should be totally unrestricted, but that the law as written, and the debate around it, is not particularly honest. The line seems to be that the "PBA" procedure was invented to make sure the fetus is dead before it's completely "born", and I think that line is dishonest and inflammatory. And, we have the continued convolution of "health of mother" and "life of mother" as exceptions, as well as the total lack of exception for rape, incest, or fetal abnormality. Did you read the article I cited about the AMA endorsement of the law and the politics behind it? Abortion is a hot button issue, and I'd agree a pointless one to argue in terms of changing people's minds. Nobody likes abortion in general, but an outright ban or near ban doesn't have sufficient political support, either. Some mainstream Republicans, William Kristol for example, seem to think it's a good issue to push as a centerpiece of the Republican moral reformation, he and others are welcome to make that case politically. It's not really an important issue to me, but I think the much maligned Women's movement has a right to fight back on the issue.