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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: Slavery and abortion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.161419.18861@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
- References: <1993Jan3.033806.10827@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan3.061908.21508@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan3.141748.11987@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:14:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.141748.11987@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- }In article <1993Jan3.061908.21508@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- }>In article <1993Jan3.033806.10827@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- }>>Galen, I can easily pay a medical drone to tell me whether a given fetus
- }>>is "viable" or not, according to the accepted and universal medical
- }>>definitions.
-
- }>I know I've said this before, but I guess I'll have to say it again.
- }>Kevin, there is no "accepted and universal medical definition[s]" of
- }>viability.
-
- }I'll go along with whatever the Supreme Court's definition of "viability"
- }is, Mark. This is not a matter of "right" or "wrong" or "correct" or
- }"mistaken"; it's only a matter of what definition one chooses. I choose
- }that one.
-
- Kevin, in one breath you say there is an accepted and universal medical
- definition of "viability," then you say that you will choose the Supreme
- Court's definition. Are they not the same? If there is an accepted
- and universal medical definition of "viability," why would the Supreme
- Court choose different criteria? As a matter of fact, why would you?
- Wouldn't you prefer an accepted and universal medical definition?
- Wouldn't you expect medical types to have a better handle on viability
- than jurists?
-
- }The other so-called "issue", i.e. whether Kevin Darcy can detect the
- }viability of a given fetus, is a diversion tactic, which has already
- }exploited more of my time that it deserves.
-
- Perhaps you consider whether you can detect a line you call "crucial"
- a diversionary tactic, but others might think it rather natural to
- ask whether you can define or recognize it.
-
- }>>That's "two", not "too", I assume, and you're wrong...
-
- I admit I spelled it wrong, and I admit other errors too. Kevin protests
- that he didn't screw up the way I said and patiently explains that he
- screwed up in a different way. The point remains that Kevin gets
- confused about whom he is talking to, that much is undisputed. Kevin
- wanted to point out I was in error about how many people Kevin was
- confused about. I'll go along with Kevin. It only takes two people
- to get him confused. I thought it was three. I apologize.
-
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