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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.163735.10217@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:37:35 GMT
- References: <1eb8irINNil4@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov19.165609.7444@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov19.183336.13018@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov19.183336.13018@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.165609.7444@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org
- >(Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >}But you don't know that for sure. And *if* it is in fact a problem, then by
- >}the time action is taken, many lives could be needlessly lost.
- >
- >}If it's not happening, then why does it hurt to legislate against it?
- >}Doesn't this sword cut _both_ ways?
- >
- >Sort of like, gee, if you're not hiding anything, why would you object
- >to a search?
-
- "Sort of like", but not really, since I'm giving an example of _legislation_
- and you're trying to analogize to the complex and delicate balance of rights
- involved in law _enforcement_. Apples and oranges.
-
- >I guess we should make it illegal to jump into the sun. We don't know
- >for sure it isn't a problem, and if in fact it is, many lives could
- >be needlessly lost before we take action.
-
- We know that approx. 100 third-trimester abortions a year are being done for
- "good" reasons, Galen. Given that order of magnitude, it's not much of a
- stretch to conjecture that maybe a few dozen are being clandestinely done for
- "bad" reasons.
-
- Now, for comparison, how many instances per year do you suppose there are
- of people jumping into the sun for "good" reasons?
-
- Your analogy quickly burns to a cinder.
-
- (Besides, I think the sun would be outside the jurisdictional boundaries of
- U.S. Law anyway).
-
- >If anyone else had said something like this, I would probably think
- >it is the stupidest thing they had said. But coming from Kevin,
- >it doesn't even rank in the top 100...
-
- Content?
-
- - Kevin
-