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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:54:29 PST
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- From: Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
- Subject: Re: abortion
- Comments: To: POLITICS@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu
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- > >I hardly think turning off a radio is analogous to "going home." Even if
- > >it were, you need to check a few facts. In "most places", there is *no*
- > >place for a woman to receive an abortion -- at last count, 83% of U.S.
- > >counties have no such clinics.
- >
- > The statistic doesn't support the conclusion.
- >
- > One can go to another county to have an abortion (or heart surgery for
- > that matter).
- >
- > Most days, I travel through at least two counties. From the roof of
- > my apartment building, I can see four counties and on some days, I
- > travel through more without going a significant distance.
- >
- > Don't bogus pro-choice arguments bother other pro-choice people?
- >
- > -andy
- > --
- >
- andy,
-
- You happen to live in a highly populated area. Believe it or not,
- there are parts of the country which are more rural and you can't "see
- four counties". There are many parts of the country, where there is
- only 1 clinic in an entire state. That statistic mentioned above was
- identified in a recent TIME magazine article. This article talked at
- length about how fewer and fewer doctors are performing abortions and
- how it is becoming increasingly difficult for someone to obtain one.
- Yes, in the Bay Area in California no woman should have a problem
- obtaining an abortion. But that is not the case in the majority of
- the country.
-
- Jonathan
-