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- From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.062956.8598@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 06:29:56 GMT
- References: <sj45478@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1ejn23INN6vd@agate.berkeley.edu> <skcgak8@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <skcgak8@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- >
- >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:
- >
- [bunch of statistics deleted]
-
- You do not give us the most important piece of information: is this for
- the entire planet or just the US? If it is the planet, then the stats
- are worthless since americans have little to say about the abortion laws
- of other countries. >
- >
- >|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
-
- Ted
-
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