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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Roe v. Wade is unrestricted abortion-on-demand throughout pregnancy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160656.2389@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Nov23.065624.29065@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:06:56 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Nov23.065624.29065@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov21.210653.15302@rotag.mi.org>
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- >>> Abortions can be legally performed all the
- >>> way up to the point of birth for virtually any reason.
- >
- >> Wrong. The sources you provided prove only that post-viability abortions
- >> done for the woman's >>HEALTH<< are constitutionally protected, Doug.
- >
- >Right, and in Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court has defined the term
- >"health" to include emotional and psychological health.
- >
- >> "Health reasons" != "virtually any reason"
- >
- >It should be painfully obvious that if a woman is denied
- >an abortion, she will quite likely suffer emotional distress.
- >She can say "I need an abortion because my emotional health
- >will suffer if I don't get one". Instant abortion-on-demand.
-
- That's _not_ a professional diagnosis, Doug, even if the woman is a medical
- and/or psychological professional. A professional diagnosis requires
- distance and objectivity and adherence to established principles of the
- profession. That's why there's a huge gulf between "health reasons" and
- "virtually any reason". A safe gulf. A gulf that'll never be crossed in the
- foreseeable future.
-
- You're an engineer, aren't you? So I assume you would find it rather insulting
- if someone went around claiming that engineers build bridges and spaceships
- and chemical processing plants, and PC motherboards "virtually any way
- they want to", like, say, out of Silly Putty (TM), if they felt like it.
- Wouldn't you wave the standards of your profession in such a person's face?
- Yet you're going around insulting the medical and psychological professions in
- very much the same way as the Silly Putty (TM) blowhard. Don't you think those
- professions are governed by standards that are just as rigorous and just as
- enthusiastically enforced as those of an engineer?
-
- - Kevin
-