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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Abortion and Infanticide
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.150757.21365@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:07:57 GMT
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- In <1992Jul29.044123.29610@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul27.114925.3395@hemlock.cray.com> mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- > >In article <1992Jul26.223011.20865@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darc
- > >>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 Da
- > >>>#In article <1992Jul22.184922.219382@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Ga
- > >>>##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 sav
- > >>>#the life of the mother?
- > >>>
- > >>> [...]
- > >>
- > >>>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?
- ..
- > You know, another thing strikes me: here we have Susie Garvin defining the
- > key term in this thread -- "necessary" -- without giving so much as a passing
- > mention of the effects on the pregnant woman, and yet there are no
- > thunderbolts from Adrienne (or anyone else) about how Susie is making the
- > woman "invisible" yet again (?)
-
- 1. She was only defining it in response to a direct query from you.
- Most of us know what the word means.
- 2. Doug claimed there was no difference between a late term fetus
- and a newborn, and Susan proved him wrong by pointing out the
- woman. I don't see how you can claim she's *ignoring* the woman.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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