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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Slavery and abortion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.173313.26885@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <1992Dec31.010805.20244@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:33:13 CST
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- In article <1992Dec31.010805.20244@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >
- >It seems that Gregg Skinner, Paul Lebow, and Michael P Noonan among others
- >think that slavery is a good analogy to abortion. I maintain that there is
- >no good analogy to abortion nor is there any good analogy to pregnancy.
- >As I have little experience either pregnancy or abortion is there anyone
- >who has been in such a circumstance who thought that this was slavery?
- >Is there anyone who thought that this reminds them of slavery? Not in a
- >frivolous sense, but a serious enough sense that would allow one to frame
- >legislation. Is there anyone who was reminded of anything, fried chicken,
- >perhaps?
- >
- For pregnancy:
- I was reminded of food poisoning, influenza, and a basketball.
- For birth:
- For some reason, I was reminded of climbing out of the Grand
- Canyon with a full pack and a sprained knee.
- For a threatened spontaneous abortion:
- I was reminded of house arrest.
-
- I don't think any of these things makes for a good analogy.
- You are right about that one, Galen.
-
- muriel
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