----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 7:45 PM Subject: Re: abortion
> There is no orthodoxy more firmly fixed in the American political
> firmament than that opposition to abortion belongs on the Right, while
> "defense of abortion rights" is the lodestar of the Left. But the
> conjunction may be accidental and only temporary.
I agree that there's nothing particularly "left" about being in favor of abortion rights--but it is the correct position.
-- Luke