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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: Estimates of the incidence of illegal abortions
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:55:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.135520.25296@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan19.234354.27547@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan22.165605.25573@ncsu.edu> <C1Jw1x.DKr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C1Jw1x.DKr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- > decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- > >I explained the connection in another article. I'm not
- > >sure if that was the connection Susan may or may not have been
- > >referring to, but I did explain it. I'll explain it again,
- > >since Reverend Holtsinger may have missed it. The unsafe
- > >nature of abortions in the 19th century was at least partly
- > >responsible for the passage of laws prohibiting abortions
- > >in many cases. This was done to protect women. The historical
- > >rates of death and injury among women who have had illegal
- > >and medically unsafe abortions in turn influenced Justice
- > >Blackmun's approach to the issue.
- >
- > Mr. Kaflowitz, the main reason abortion was made illegal in the 19th
- > century was the discovery of fertilization and the fact the AMA was
- > actively lobbying Congressmen with their view that life began at
- > fertilization.
-
- You are saying that injury to women had nothing at all to do
- with it? I didn't say it was entirely due to that cause, but you
- write as though that's what I said. Very unrealistic of you.
-
- Also, you write as though your answer is the all of it. You are,
- therefore, wrong.
-
- I also don't think someon who said the following really has much
- of a moral leg to stand on:
-
- "My final action will be to abort all homeless and poor welfare families
- because I have decided that they are not living productive, fulfilling
- lives, and I am God. These are humans, because they are scraping out a
- sparse survival in our world, but since I'm God I feel it would be more
- compassionate if I ended their misery."
- - Edward Simmonds (vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu),
- in article <C04w4u.CBs@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
-