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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">The AWARE fb page has from its beginning been a locus for differing views on the implications of opposition to US wars - e.g., pro- and anti-Obama.<br>
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And I do not, incidentally, have "an apologist attitude towards Trump." I do think it's important to understand why he was elected - an effect of the general populist uprising in the US & EU, not a matter of 'left' and 'right.'<br>
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<div id="divRpF303758" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Peace [peace-bounces@lists.chambana.net] on behalf of Karen Aram via Peace [peace@lists.chambana.net]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> peace<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Peace] Carl's posting related to alignment of "war and abortion"<br>
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Carl’s letter to the NG below is fine, it’s his opinion and he has a right to express his opinion , placing it on FB along with the Peace Discuss List, is also his right. However, when he places it on the AWARE FB page, where he represents the AWARE group,
I must object. I now see why the group has failed to recruit new members, and has lost many from previous years, given its affiliation with anti-abortion issues, not just war, that along with the election of Obama, on the assumption he was a peace candidate.</p>
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<div class="">Carl is right on target, when his focus is on anti-war, which is why I have always supported him and AWARE, but now he has taken AWARE to the “right,” along with his apologist attitude towards Trump, thus I recommend the ANSWER Coalition with
their local group now in Champaign, for those interested in supporting the anti-war movement. </div>
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<div class="">Please see: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R" class="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R</a>.</div>
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Please also see Carl’s letter on the AWARE FB page below:</p>
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"Anti-war and anti-abortion efforts belong together. The contemporary anti-war movement grows out of the appalling fact that the US government has killed more than 20 million people in almost 40 nations since World War II - and has done so to maintain the economic
control of the world that the US inherited as the only largely undamaged major country after that war.</p>
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Abortion is the leading<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline; font-family:inherit"> cause of death in the US today. An abortion obviously ends a human life; it ought to be opposed by all of us who say that our political views are that we’re
“against anything that kills people or destroys the planet we live on."</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 6px; font-family:inherit">But most of my friends who’ve had an abortion or seriously considered it have done so for economic reasons. Most of them privileged people, they have been unable to countenance the burdens, financial
and personal, that would come with a(nother) child. That’s clearly even more the case for those who lack their privileges.</p>
<p class="" style="margin:6px 0px; font-family:inherit">Those of us opposed to the destruction of human life - at home or abroad, before or after birth - must also be opposed to the circumstances that lead people to end unborn human lives. Medicare for all,
child supports, free education, and a universal basic income must be insisted upon by those of us who are opposed to abortion and war.”</p>
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