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Subject: Jane Fonda Says Pro-Life People are Hypocrites
Source: Salt Lake City Tribune, April 5, 2000
Jane Fonda Says Pro-Life People are Hypocrites
Salt Lake City, Utah -- At a recent pro-abortion event in Utah, actress
Jane Fonda said pro-life people were hypocrites on many levels. "The whole
issue of choice has nothing to do with the fetus," she said.
"Have you ever asked yourself why [pro-life people] have so much concern
for the egg while it's growing inside a woman, but so little concern for
the child once it's born? For anti-abortion activists, it seems life
begins at conception and ends at birth."
Fonda was the keynote speaker Tuesday night during the annual Utahns for
Choice dinner at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel, which was attended by
about 500 members.
Utahns for Choice since 1991 has lobbied for pro-abortion laws. The
organization mobilized 3,000 citizens to call or e-mail Utah Gov. Mike
Leavitt to push for his veto of the abstinence-only sexual education bill
that would have forbidden teaching students about abortion in the
classroom.
Fonda thanked Leavitt for vetoing the bill.
"There is no research to date to show that abstinence-only programs
prevent risky sexual behavior," she said, pointing out, "You can never
have an abortion if you're not pregnant . . . so why is it that people who
are opposed to abortion are also opposed to contraception?"
She talked about the close ties between a woman having power if she is
able to determine the sexual and reproductive aspects of her life. Denying
a woman that right, Fonda said, "is the same mind-set that opposes the
notion of women working. It's a view that doesn't reflect reality" and
ignores the concept that women are contributing members of society.
The pro-abortion U.N. conference on women at Beijing earlier this year
ratified a declaration asserting that "reproductive rights" are human
rights. But, Fonda said, the Vatican, the Muslim community and the most
conservative Republicans in the United States are opposing the measure by
turning it into an issue about abortion and the taking of rights from
parents.
She urged the audience to call congressional leaders to urge support of
the U.N. declaration.
Fonda founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in
1995. In 1994 she was named goodwill ambassador for the pro-abortion U.N.
Population Fund.
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