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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: "Roe v. Wade is unrestricted abortion-on-demand" is a lie
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.233256.20415@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Um, err... I *know* I saw it a few days ago...
- References: <1992Nov20.204529.17560@watson.ibm.com> <1992Nov20.215541.16604@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov21.013356.38066@watson.ibm.com>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 23:32:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.013356.38066@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >In <1992Nov20.215541.16604@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>Several thousand abortions are performed annually after the
- >>21st week of pregnancy (viability starts around the 22nd
- >>to 23rd week of pregnancy).
- >
- >You mean, the *possibility* of viability starts there. How many
- >22 week preemies survive?
- >
- Based on examples of infants in a level 3 neonatal ICU, 22 week
- preemies have less then a 1 in 10 chance of survival. Of those that
- survive, roughly 2/3 will have serious permanent defects.
-
- >>I'm not claiming that third-trimester abortions are performed
- >>for "trivial" reasons;
- >
- >So you admit that your scare-tactics are groundless?
- >
- >>BTW, are you going to send threatening e-mail to my system
- >>administrators for this post?
- >
- >Why would I do that, Dougie? I've never sent threatening e-mail to
- >*anyone's* system administrator.
- Of course not Larry, but by posting that, he covers his butt for whenn
- he flees from the argument. He'll be able to claim he lost his net
- access because of your threatening email...
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer. They also represent the views of
- your employer, your government, the Church of your choice, and the
- Ghost of Elvis. So there.
-