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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line "arbitrary"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.173558.15382@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:35:58 GMT
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- In article <C0301K.5nL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
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- }Apparently somebody has never heard of military conscription.
-
- Been there, done that. It isn't quite the same as trying to legally
- ban abortion. 'Course, I've never had (or been denied) an abortion.
- I suspect that the number of people who have had abortions (or even
- tried to have them) and have also been drafted to approach zero.
- Being as how I doubt we can have an experienced person comment, I
- suppose we will have to rely on the Thinkers, of which you are
- obviously not one.
-
- }The over 90% of illegal abortions performed before Roe v Wade were done
- }by licensed physicians in good medical standing in their own offices.
- }The number of deaths before and after Roe v Wade showed no statistical
- }decrease in deaths resulting from abortion.
- }
- }Stop perpetuating these lies.
-
- Good advice. I think those figures are rather foolish myself. I doubt
- you could find any reliable source for any percentage of illegal abortions.
-
- }Ms. Smith consented to have sex. In so doing she has surrendered her rights
- }to bodily integrity and personal autonomy.
-
- Darn. I thought she just consented to have sex. Where is it written that
- she did all that other stuff? In your Big Book Of The Way I Wished Things
- Worked, perhaps?
-
- }Once again, Ms. Smith went and had sex without using her brain.
-
- How do you know? Were you there?
-
- }Murder is murder.
-
- Murder is not abortion. Abortion is not murder.
-
- }Morally and scientifically life begins at fertilization, and so does
- }citizenhood.
-
- You seem to have a different concept of "life" than many of the scientists
- I have talked to. I don't know about your morals but mine tell me
- that life began long before fertilization was even thought of. As
- for "citizenhood," I couldn't find it in a dictionary, so you may
- be correct in asserting that, although to what end I can't imagine.
-
- }Edward Simmonds
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