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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: A snippet of evidence
- In-Reply-To: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 19:10:31 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:36:05 GMT
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- On 21 Jan 93 19:10:31 GMT, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) said:
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- >In <0fJxwLC00Uh7016dcv@andrew.cmu.edu> Michael Loomis <ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >>The entire post of netnews.talk.abortion: 15-Jan-93 A snippet of
- >>evidence by Doug Holtsinger@eceyv.nc
- >>> "In 1800, the average American woman bore seven children.
- >>> There was a slight decline in births during the first three
- >>> decades but between 1840 and 1850 there was the largest drop
- >>> of the century. This was the very time that abortion came
- >>> to public notice and services were openly advertised."
- >>>
- >>> _Abortion practice in Britain and the United States_,
- >>> Colin Francome, Allen and Unwin, 1986, pg. 31
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- >>We should think Mr. Holtsinger for posting this snippet of evidence for
- >>how helpful abortion has been in reducing population growth. We still
- >>have a long way to go before we achieve the zero population growth much
- >>less the negative population growth that the environment on this planet
- >>so desperately needs. Abortion will continue to play an important role
- >>in this change, and hence in the betterment of this planet for all
- >>people and animals. Safe abortion is one of the best gifts that modern
- >>medical technology has given us.
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- >>Michael Loomis
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- >Would you object to being added to the list of certified pro-aborts
- >(now 3, with plenty of promising candidates) in this newsgroup?
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- Ooh. Certified pro-abort, according to someone who himself is very nearly a
- certifiable loony? Boy, I bet *that* really stings...
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- --PLH, thankful he's nowhere near Columbia, though he *does* worry about
- some of his kinfolk a couple hundred miles away in north Georgia...
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