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- From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Slavery Analogy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.021840.23143@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:18:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.154352.1669@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec30.184040.16085@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec30.210045.9732@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.210045.9732@mksol.dseg.ti.com> noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.184040.16085@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Dec30.154352.1669@mksol.dseg.ti.com> noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan) writes:
- >|> }In article <1992Dec30.025734.24975@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
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- >**Begin Speculation**
- >The last statistic I heard regarding number of abortions performed
- >in the United States was somewhere around the mark of 1.5 million.
- >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the number is around there
- >somewhere. Thus, PA would be (generous) 1 million. The stat I
- >heard from Romania was that 10,000 women had died in 29 years?
- >Let's say that 10,000 women will die from botched abortions each
- >year in the U.S. How many successfull, illegal abortions must
- >there be to make enforcement of anti-abortion legislation a net
- >good? 990,000. I don't believe the number would be that high,
- >since the number of abortion practitioners would decrease dramatically.
- >**End Speculation**
-
- >If TLS = Total Lives Saved = positive number, then enforcement of
- >anti-abortion laws is successful.
-
- In a society that cannot feed and clothe those who are already here,
- where people sleep on the streets, suggesting that more be born to sleep
- in the streets does not strike me as a valuable goal. To suggest that
- increasing the population, in and of itself, is a valuable goal, one must
- provide some evidence that more people is a desirable end. So WHAT makes
- having more born a virtue?
-