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- From: hsims@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: RE: Loren and Heather should bicker in person, not on net
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- Date: 23 DEC 92 20:54:52 GMT
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- In a previous article, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) wrote:
- >In <22DEC92.16592843@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >
- >>Do you think that non-smokers who understand the risks involved should not
- >>be allowed to make their own decision and choose to use RU-486?
- >
- >Your question has a counterfactual assumption in it, which renders it
- >purely rhetorical.
- >
- > [repost about associated risks deleted to save space]
-
- I read that the first time it was posted. Again I ask, if women understand
- the risks of RU-486 (I don't believe there is a conspiracy to hide the info),
- shouldn't they be allowed to make their own decision to use it? There are
- dangerous risks associated with smoking, eating high fat food, driving, etc
- - do you think these things should be banned?
-
- >> Have they looked into adopting any of the
- >>150,000-200,000 orphaned and abandons BORN children from Romania?
- >
- >Funny, some of them went over there and for some unknown reason paid
- >good money to adopt children who were living with their natural parents.
- >
- >Could it be that those figures you just gave are almost as inflated
- >as the 60,000 dead that Ceausescu was charged with when the kangaroo
- >court convicted him of genocide and had him executed? [I believe
- >the final figure was in the low hundreds.]
-
- I got these figures from an article in the American Journal of Public Health,
- October 1992, volume 82, issue 10, pages 1328-1331. The authors of this
- article got their data from _Report of a UNICEF Programme for
- Institutionalized Children in Romania_. They reported that "shortly after the
- revolution approximately 150,000-200,000 children were in institutional care".
-
- You didn't answer my question about why you feel rape victims should be forced
- to provide children for couples who want to adopt.
-
- >>[ramblings about Susan and Keith deleted]
- >
- >A truly Garvinesque deletion.
-
- What is that supposed to mean? Your problems with Susan and Keith have
- nothing to do with me or the issues discussed in this post, so I deleted them.
-
- >I used to think Heather was a cut above the talk.abortion inner
- >circle of women (no pro-lifer need apply) headed by Ms. Regard and
- >including such notables as Garvin, Mills, McCabe, Birmingham, and Adolf,
- >but I see I was wrong.
-
- This actually sounds like a compliment...
-
- >Peter Nyikos
-
- .... Heather.
-