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- From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.004551.10523@noao.edu>
- Originator: forgach@gemini.tuc.noao.edu
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
- References: <7224@news.duke.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:45:51 GMT
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- From article <7224@news.duke.edu>, by eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK):
- > dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >
- >>There are other more reliable methods of contraception. Mutilating
- >>your sex organs is guaranteed to be 100% reliable.
-
- Oh, you mean like vasectomies and tubal ligations?
-
-
- >>Many of us do
- >>not feel the cost is worth it and will continue to use abortion
- >>when less reliable, but also less costly methods fail.
-
- Well Dan, Mr. Vasectomy himself, what do you need with abortion?
-
- (Except to gloat over the one you paid for, thereby depriving yourself
- of a 3 year old friend...)
-
-
- > Well we could have some amazing tenors to listen to in the opera....
-
- Emil, realize that people literally _do_ mutilate their sex organs in
- order to avoid pregnancy! It's called sterilization! And it's such a waste
- when abstinence is 100% effective, and periodic abstinence, learned in a one
- hour class, is safer and as effective as rearranging your hormones every day
- via the pill.
-
-
- > My question is how much abstinence costs with respect to other methods
- > of birth control? You don't need a doctor's prescription, you don't need
- > to spend money, or you don't need to learn how to put things in or on to
- > prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Abstinence is the only means I know where
- > people that practice abstinence don't get an unplanned pregnancy.
-
- Yay, Emil! Truer words were never spoken.
-
-
- Suzanne.
-