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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Estimates of the incidence of illegal abortions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.070243.1401@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 07:02:43 GMT
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- In article <C18C5r.K6o@ra.nrl.navy.mil> lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil writes:
- >In article <C1870B.1v8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >>dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1993Jan20.210343.23208@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- >>>decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- >>>>dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>>>>garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>>>>>dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>
- >>>>>>> it is questionable whether Ms. Garvin's estimates could be
- >>>>>>> applied to today's situation.
- >>
- >>>>>> Of course, I never claimed that they could.
- >>
- >>>>> Then we agree that your estimates are worthless.
- >>>>> Why are you still arguing the point?
- >>
- >>>> Susan never said any such thing.
- >.....
- >
- >Gee, is this deja vu? Seems like just a few weeks ago when I claimed that
- >there were fewer abortion related deaths prior to RvW than now, Susan Garvin,
- >along with a host of others dragged out a similar set of irrelevant stats. Of
- >course, my sources were impeccable: NARAL, US Census, Am. J. of Obst & Gyn.
- >Frankly, the whole thing is just a scare tactic - unfortunately its a
- >successful one.
- >
- Your sources were also disproven. According to the figures you posted,
- your sources admited to about 50 deaths a year from abortions. Today,
- there are about 4 per year.
- You tried to ignore it, but I'm sure readers noticed it.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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