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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:17:18 EST
- From: <DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93023.121718DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1993Jan18.073014.28669@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- <1993Jan21.021421.24486@Princeton.EDU> <14017@optilink.COM>
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- In article <14017@optilink.COM>, cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) says:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan21.021421.24486@Princeton.EDU>,
- >datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
- >> In article <Jan.19.21.13.09.1993.7286@romulus.rutgers.edu>,
- >> kaldis@romulus.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) writes:
- >> >I changed the one key word in the passage above to more accurately
- >> >reflect the nature of this supposed "choice". So how does it look in
- >> >all of its naked and inhuman brutality?
- >>
- >> Pretty damn good. At least you won't have to spend your conservative
- >> money on health and human services, government bureaucracies, possible
- >> jail time, etc., etc., etc.
- >>
- >> Better we should abort a z/e/f than to have an innocent child beaten,
- >> starved, maimed, or killed. But then, that's just my thinking.
- >>
- >> Tep
- >
- >So, when are we going to see the dramatic decline in physical
- >abuse and neglect of children, now that abortion is legal?
- >
- >Now, I realize that a lot of things have changed in this country
- >since the 1950s. Racial discrimination is housing, employment,
- >and public accomodations is now illegal. There has been a dramatic
- >expansion of governmental assistance to the poor, and child protective
- >services is much more quick to intervene on behalf of abused
- >children. Yet, physical abuse and neglect are MUCH more common
- >today than in the 1950s.
-
- (1) You have reliable statistics on that?
-
- (2) You forgot the rise in poverty among families with children and
- drug-abuse.
-
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-
-
- >Maybe abortion doesn't do much for this problem?
- >--
- >Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- >"When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
- >Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
- Dennis G. Shea, Penn State
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