Besides increasing the overall level of repression, criminalizing abortion
could have the same effect that criminalizing drugs has had - permitting the
elaboration of a rhetoric justifying the further expansion of repressive
controls targeting disadvantaged groups in America. This will probably work
to the advantage of the right wing in the same way the drug war has worked
to their advantage.
Andrew Austin
Green Bay, WI
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From: martin schiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: voting for Nader
kelley said on 11/4/00 4:40 P
>they'll make it a state's rights issue, if they can. unlikely. OR,
>they'll uphold rulings that will steadily eke away at the right to abortion
>on demand. we don't have that anyway.
The question was "how do you see reversing roe/wade as benefiting the
long term goal of the GOP to gain/retain power.
