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- From: don@ocf.berkeley.edu (Don Bromley)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
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- Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:55:43 GMT
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- >> This is classic liberal intellectual dishonesty. What fraction of
- >> women who get abortions are married? Maybe 1%??
- >
- >This is classic ignorant stupidity. More like 20 - 30%, depending on
- >what year you look at. And of what relevance is that, anyway? Saying
- >that people who don't want to have [any more] children should refrain from
- >sex *is* including *all* the married couples who don't want [more] kids.
-
- Oh REALLY? I notice you didn't cite any sources. And even if 20%
- were the actual figure, it is certainly the minority of cases, and
- should be referred to as the exception, not the rule. Did I say
- that people who don't want kids shouldn't have sex? There IS a
- thing called birth control, and an unexpected pregnancy doesn't
- necessitate abortion. Certainly if a woman is older and can't
- physically cope with a pregnancy, then an abortion would be
- performed to save the life of the mother, but MANY people who
- you see every day ARE the result of unexpected pregnancies. I
- would say that people who CAN'T have pregnancies for one reason
- or another shouldn't have sex, yes...
-
- Please do tell me where you got that 20-30% figure, because that
- figure seems ridiculous.
-
- >--
- >Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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- -Don Bromley
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