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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:23:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.171306.1666@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <Ef2zRZq00WBLE4rVkJ@andrew.cmu.edu> <sj45478@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1ejn23INN6vd@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1ejn23INN6vd@agate.berkeley.edu>, don@ocf.berkeley.edu writes:
- |>Do you really think it's reasonable to ask all the married
- |>couples in the world to refrain from having sex if they don't
- |>want any more children? Do you really think you will succeed in
- |>convincing people not to have sex? Or could it be that you're
- |>recommending a course that is totally unworkable & unrealistic,
- |>and therefore ridiculous?
- | This is classic liberal intellectual dishonesty. What fraction of
- | women who get abortions are married? Maybe 1%??
-
- Note that the previous poster recommended abstinence for married
- people, too. But since you seem to think that married people
- don't experience unwanted pregnancies, I have some facts for
- you:
-
- ========================================================
- From rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Message-ID: <1992May1.104931.17828@hemlock.cray.com>
-
- Try _The World Almanac_; there's a nice chart there. I won't type in
- the whole thing (wouldn't fit), but the figures for 1972, 1976, 1980,
- and 1985 in the 1990 World Almanac (page 846; they also have figures
- for 1981, 1982, 1983, & 1984) are:
-
- 1972 1976 1980 1985
- Reported # of legal abortions 586,760 988,267 1,297,606 1,328,570
- Ratio per 1000 live births 180.1 312.0 359.2 353.8
- Rate per 1000 women aged 13 21 25 24
- 15-44 years
- Percentage distribution (excludes unknowns)
- Age (years)
- 19 and under 32.6 32.1 29.2 26.3
- 20-24 32.5 33.3 35.3 34.7
- 25 and over 34.9 34.6 35.3 39.0
- Race
- White 77.0 66.6 69.6 66.6
- Black and other 23.0 33.4 30.1 33.4
- Marital status
- Married 29.7 24.6 23.1 19.3
- Unmarried 70.3 75.4 76.9 80.7
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-
- |What bothers me is how liberals aren't one-bit concerned about
- |the millions of unborn babies who are vacuumed-up, yet the
- |thought of a woman having an unwanted pregnancy sends chills up
- |their spines.
-
- What bothers me is how raving lunatics aren't one bit concerned
- about living, breathing women, yet the idea of undifferentiated
- tissue getting removed-- which nature does on its own, for 2/3 of
- all conceptions-- sends them into frothing control freakouts.
-
- ---
- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "I don't think Christians should use birth control."
- --Randall Terry, Operation Rescue
-