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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: MENSTRUAL EXTRACTION AND THE 5-WEEK LIMIT
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- References: <nyikos.720223561@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Oct30.130948.10139@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <nyikos.720712272@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov8.233052.18819@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:03:46 GMT
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- In <1992Nov8.233052.18819@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
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- >In article <nyikos.720712272@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >}In <1992Oct30.130948.10139@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
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- >}> No "pro-life" type has yet provided any examples
- >}>or statistics that legislation of any type would bring about the
- >}>changes they seem to desire.
- >}
- >}Because the idea of a 5-week limit is totally untested.
-
- >Uh, you might want to read that again. I said that there have been no
- >statistics concerning legislation of any type. I suppose that neither
- >the 4.999999-week limit nor the 5.00001-week limits have been tested as
- >well. Peter, you even quote what I wrote before you responded to it!
- >Do you have trouble reading or just an extremely short attention span?
-
- The *idea* has not been tested, nor the idea of anything below 12 weeks.
- Must I spell everything out?
-
- >}On the other
- >}hand, LOTS of countries have a 12-week limit [again with exceptions
- >}similar to the ones I would grant after week 5] and that seems to
- >}have worked quite well.
-
- >Where legislation has brought about desired change as opposed to no
- >legislation? Since there are "LOTS" of countries that have tried this
- >I should assume you'd have no trouble offering some stats, but you,
- >continuing a trend, do not. Sigh.
-
- Hey, don't go away. I wasn't sure you were interested in pursuing this
- line of thought. An example: Hungary had one of the most liberal
- abortion laws in the world once, and births were outnumbered by abortions
- at one point. They introduced a 12-week limit and that seems to have
- worked out well. I don't have stats with me now, but perhaps some other
- reader can find them easily.
-
- Stats may be somewhat beside the point, except stats on how much the law
- is flouted. I think rarely, because some recent Hungarian immigrants
- had trouble believing that abortion is available here for any reason
- all the way up to viability. And they would have voted for Clinton,
- were they citizens.
-
- >[a posting containing stats about Romania and abortion mentioned]
-
- >}I missed that one, and am very curious about it. I would appreciate
- >}a repost, or an e-mailing.
-
- >I don't have it archived, and I can't recall who posted it, but could
- >it be reposted or mailed to Peter?
-
- Heather Sims has already done so. Thanks, Heather.
-
- Peter Ny.
-
-