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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180715.20576@s1.gov>
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- References: <7224@news.duke.edu> <1992Nov21.004551.10523@noao.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:07:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.004551.10523@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >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.
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- >Oh, you mean like vasectomies and tubal ligations?
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- EXACTLY. And let us not forget about castration :-)
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- Read Matthew 5:29-30 or Matthew 19:12 for details ;-)
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- >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.
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- Wrongo. A lot of mental effort is needed for these methods.
- Much less is needed for the Pill, and none at all for surgical
- sterilization, let alone neutering.
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