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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Abortion and Infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.114925.3395@hemlock.cray.com>
- Lines: 31
- References: <1992Jul25.045504.15172@rotag.mi.org> <3728@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Jul26.223011.20865@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 11:49:25 CDT
-
- In article <1992Jul26.223011.20865@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <3728@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul25.045504.15172@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>#In article <1992Jul22.184922.219382@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>##It is never necessary to kill a newborn infant in order to
- >>##remove it from its mother. It is sometimes necessary to
- >>##kill a late term fetus to remove it from the pregnant
- >>##woman.
- >>#
- >>#I assume by "necessary" you mean medically indicated, right, in order to save
- >>#the life of the mother?
- >>
- >>Are you and Holtsinger sharing a brain this week?
- >
- >Contentless blather.
- >
- >>By "necessary", I meant "unable to accomplish without."
- >
- >That definition is **USELESS**, Susie, since it is _never_ strictly
- >"necessary" to kill a viable fetus -- we could just rip the thing right out,
- >and who cares about the effect on the pregnant woman's health or life, right?
- >
- Kevin, I think it's incredibly offensive to stoop to this
- kind of linguistic brutality, just because you want to get
- sarcastic with Susan. Have you given any thought to the
- incredible insensitivity you display, in describing a difficult
- parturition in such terms? In mixed company, yet? Just how
- disrespectful can you get?
-
- muriel
- standard disclaimer
-