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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: Re: The Context Master Strikes Again (formerly: ...sterilization program?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.034437.8284@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 03:44:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.114913.15012@wam.umd.edu> judi@wam.umd.edu (Jay T Stein -- Conan the Grammarian) writes:
- >What: <1993Jan20.021749.3583@ncsu.edu>
- >Who: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------
- >When I saw this Subject line, I was taken aback:
- >
- >> Subject: Does James Keegan support Cochran's mandatory sterilization program?
- >
- >When I saw that Doug Holtsinger had written the article, I wondered about
- >the context...
- >
- >> "Personally, I think we need to develop some sort of 100% reversable
- >> steralization procedure, and make it mandatory for both sexes to be
- >> steralized to enter school."
- >>
- >> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith Cochran)
- >> <1993Jan17.210349.13155@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- >
- >The implication in the Subject is that Mark Cochran supports forced
- >sterilization of the permanent, irreversible variety. The actual quote
- >is not nearly as severe as Doug (deliberately?) leads the casual observer
- >to believe.
- >
- >Note also that Mr. Holtsinger deleted important context from Mark Cochran's
- >original quote, which was (paraphrased): "Then when two people decide they
- >are ready to have kids, they can have the procedure reversed and go for it."
- >
- >I still don't agree with it, but suddenly Mark's suggestion doesn't seem
- >quite as severe, or as offensive. Doug's careful deletion of context,
- >however, seems more offensive and severe as ever.
-
- Actually, that was my post. If you look through the thread, you'll see
- it was in response to the tragic story of the 8 year old girl in Mexico
- who had just given birth.
-
- That lead me to thinking that if we had some sort of 100% reversible
- steralization procedure, we wouldn't have things like this happen.
-
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