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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: a mr. intellectual integrity thread: live by the sword...
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- References: <92311.172926ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:04:30 GMT
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- In <92311.172926ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov2.154159.23583@cs.yale.edu> Eric Rescorla says:
- >>In article <92305.094124ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> Linda Birmingham writes:
- >>>In article <1992Oct26.154453.277@cs.yale.edu> Eric Rescorla says:
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- >>>>I would tend to think so.
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- >>>While you gentlemen are defining insulting and inflammatory
- >>>statements, could you tell me if it is insulting and
- >>>inflammatory to label someone who opposes abortion legislation
- >>>and believes that abortion is a matter to be left to a woman
- >>>and her doctor as a radical extremist?
-
- >>No
-
- I agree, if "her doctor" means "the abortionist whom she sees maybe
- once in her life." Because that is not only radical, it is dishonest.
-
- I disagree, if "her doctor" means "her family doctor," or "her gyneco-
- logist" [assuming her gynecologist is not also an abortionist]. This
- is not radical, only it is unrealistic because the abortion decision
- is almost never left up to the woman and her doctor in this sense.
-
- >>I think it's observationally extreme on the scale of beliefs
- >>to believe that abortion should be legal throughout pregnancy.
-
- >Do you think it's observationally extreme on the scale of beliefs
- >to believe that women should be placed in jail for obtaining
- >banned abortions?
-
- Yes, because it's never happened in the history of the USA, not
- even when abortion was almost totally illegal.
-
- >>Is there something wrong with being extreme?
-
- >Never having been extreme, I wouldn't know.
-
- Dream on, Ms. Birmingham.
-
- >Linda
- >--
- >Polls show that the majority of Canadians believe that abortion
- >is a private matter between a woman and her doctor and are,
- >therefore, pro-choice.
-
- No, they have simply been misled as to what they are agreeing to.
- Just as SOMEBODY was misled by Ms. Birmingham's use of "You cannot
- fit a ..."
-
- But Ms. Birmingham does not seem to care about that.
-
- Peter Ny.
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