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1321 Murder vs. Killing -- rank: 1000

Rakesh, Exactly. Marta Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Garland Allen speaks to some of our concerns here: > > "With current availability of many genetic screening tests and > amniocentrsis, we already have in place a kind of 'laissez-faire' eugenics, > to use Philip Kitcher's phrase. Add to this, the growing pressure from > halth providers on families not to have, or to abort, 'at risk' offspring, > reproductive decisions are already being made with respect to 'genetic > de ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 26 20:51:58 PDT 1999

1322 murder v. killing. -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Marta: > >I support abortion but take the Adrienne Asche's position that it crosses the > >line when one aborts because one does not like the characteristic of the fetus > >(sex, disability, hair color, whatever else they will know about us in the > >womb) rather than having the abortion because the conditions in one's life > >makes that choice necessary to abort ANY fetus. This way I challenge > >assumptions about disablement as ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 26 11:36:20 PDT 1999

1323 Singer's influence spreads -- rank: 1000

http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990428/news/news22.html Good riddance to a warped philosopher By DAVID S. ODERBERG Tonti-Filippini bemoaned the loss to Melbourne caused by the appointment of Professor Peter Singer (pictured) to a position at Princeton University, one of America's leading colleges. Tonti-Filippini praises Singer for his ``fierce independence of thought'' and the ``healthy polemic that he inspired''. Which leads me to think that the former St Vincent's hospital bioethic ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 26 11:14:28 PDT 1999

1324 murder v. killing -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: > marta wrote > > >I don't like having the RTLs on this side of the issue, believe me, it is not > >my cup of tea. One problem we have is distinguishing the disability > >perspective from the RTL (who by the way are always eager to portray us as > >RTL). I agree with you that abortion is a serious matter not like having an > >organ removed. > > yeah, agreed that i wouldn't be happy about that either! but pramatically, > it is true tha ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 26 10:10:08 PDT 1999

1325 Murder vs. Killing -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: > Max, in his response to the above, makes an unpalatable--but > incontrovertible--point, though he doesn't state it very directly: > Given that the means of testing a fetus for all sorts of characteristics > are becoming more readily available all the time, and given that > there is no way to assess and distinguish a woman's "real" motives > for desiring an abortion, it's inevitable that the procedure will > come to be used by some as a kind of ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 25 22:35:19 PDT 1999

1326 Murder vs. Killing -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: > >Marta writes: > >I support abortion but take the Adrienne Asche's position that it crosses > >the line when one aborts because one does not like the characteristic > >of the fetus (sex, disability, hair color, whatever else they will know > >about us in the womb) rather than having the abortion because the > >conditions in one's life makes that choice necessary to abort ANY fetus. > >>>> > > Max, in his response to th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 25 22:17:03 PDT 1999

1327 The Health Care Industry -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: > > > *Why* have costs spiralled upward so dramatically in the past 20 > years? Here is a consideration that hasn't been brought up. HMOs were initiated in part to the postion that consumers needed to be controlled from going to more doctors than they "needed" - hence the gatekeeper physician concept in HMOs. What I found when I enrolled in one HMO that took Medicare beneficiaries was that the physician was totally incompetent to handle my needs. He ev ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 25 13:16:13 PDT 1999

1328 social planning (was 'revolution and proletariat') -- rank: 1000

Angela, Just getting to your post. Could you give me some recommendations for reading on the Webbs and eugenics?? best, marta rc-am wrote: > > Hayek is withering on the nationalism of socialists, including the > > Fabian sort. He's got a point here, if he's representing Webb & Shaw > > accurately. > > he is. the webbs were really keen on eugenics as well: the planning of > biological reproduction. > > Angela > _________ -- Marta Russell author, Los Angel ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 25 11:14:13 PDT 1999

1329 murder v. killing. -- rank: 1000

Kelley, I don't like having the RTLs on this side of the issue, believe me, it is not my cup of tea. One problem we have is distinguishing the disability perspective from the RTL (who by the way are always eager to portray us as RTL). I agree with you that abortion is a serious matter not like having an organ removed. I support abortion but take the Adrienne Asche's position that it crosses the line when one aborts because one does not like the characteristic of the fetus (sex, disability, hai ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 25 11:39:10 PDT 1999

1330 Single-Payer National Health Insurance -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: > I sense a lot of support for single-payer national health insurance. > >From a disability perspective I've supported single payer health insurance for several reasons: 1. It would de-link health insurance from employment. Since private health care makes pre existing conditions and other exclusions (not to mention exorbitant monthly premiums) a part of the system, many disabled people must use the public health care system. Both are negatives when it comes to being ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 25 10:58:36 PDT 1999

1331 murder v. killing -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: > 5. clearly marta i was arguing that a fetus or potential human life does > not have the same status as an infant. my argument was in response to > those who don't like abortion=murder but who also find it repulsive to > think of it as akin to an appendectomy. Yes I got that. I was expanding on the now loaded word "killing." Singer supports killing infants. And, I'm not sure but Singer may not make a distinction between fetus and under 30 day old infant ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 25 08:57:53 PDT 1999

1332 no brainer: abortion is killing. so what? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Kelley: > > i said from the get-go and many times thereafter that i absolutely support abortion on demand, unconditionally, for everyone. the whole point of my post was to argue for a way to, eventually, bring about socialized health care and to do so strategically so that, at the same time, we lobby for abortion on demand as part of that future health care system. my arguments presume that socialized health care will take a good decade or two to achieve, ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 11:24:11 PDT 1999

1333 Pacifica, KPFK's role -- rank: 1000

LBOers, Some concerned Pacifica listeners see KPFK as the real battleground, of the 5 stations in the network. They say Houston & Wash DC are already basically lost, & NYC & Berkeley are still strong loud defiant community radio voices...That leaves LA, where a Faustian battle is being waged for the soul of the station. They say that there are a few staff members at KPFK who see what's going down (the Cooper cabal) & are doing their best to resist, but they're largely unsupported ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Aug 17 09:16:10 PDT 1999

1334 back to 1835! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > Less debt means less interest payments, which opens up more funds for other > programs if we ever to get back a majority for serious social justice > spending. But since we dont have that majority, paying off the debt looks > better than a lot of other alternatives. > > One reason there isn't a demand for social spending is because the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement makes it impossible to get any funding for social programs even when they are agreed nece ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Aug 3 16:22:51 PDT 1999

1335 KPFK press conference -- rank: 1000

Media Update KPFK Press Conference 08/02/1999 With some 50 demonstrators chanting for free speech radio in front of KPFK's North Hollywood studios, former KPFK broadcast journalist, talk show host, and Golden Mike winner, Gil Contreras, met with reporters from Spanish television stations KVEA 52 and Channel 34 about his departure from KPFK airways. "I resigned from my position as a reporter and morning news anchor in the newsroom, in protest of the cancellation of my afternoon drive time ta ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 3 10:13:06 PDT 1999