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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: An argument for better sex ed
- In-Reply-To: hsims@vax.clarku.edu's message of 7 JAN 93 15:03:25 GMT
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- References: <1278@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan6.235607.3604@noao.edu>
- <PATRICK.93Jan6191716@rio-grande.is.rice.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:53:03 GMT
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- On 7 JAN 93 15:03:25 GMT, hsims@vax.clarku.edu said:
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- >In a previous article, patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) wrote:
- >>In article <1993Jan6.235607.3604@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >>
- >>From article <1278@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, by sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin):
- >>>
- >>> In article <C04w4u.CBs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes
- >>> a rather stunning display of pro-lie propaganda, beginning with:
- >>>
- >>> #I don't think you understand... you got YOURSELF pregnant.
- >>>
- >>> Nice trick, Heather.
- >>>
- >>> Susan
- >>
- >> Seems to me any time a pro-lifer brings up the fact that it takes two
- >> to get pregnant, he or she gets barraged with followups and letters
- >> from lesbians espousing the "teaspoon method".
- >>
- >>Is that so? I've been here as long as you have, and strangely enough, I
- >>haven't seen any such activity -- and I don't disappear for a month at a
- >>time because of work, or "news server problems", or such. Seems to me this
- >>claim's got at least the potential for being as funny as your backpedaling
- >>about the clinic exorcism.
- >>
- >> Ya can't have it both ways, pro-"choicers".
- >>
- >>How is pointing out the obvious idiocy of a statement made by one of your
- >>fellow travelers trying to "have it both ways"? Or are you saying you
- >>really think Heather got herself pregnant? (That *is* a neat trick, if she
- >>really did that.)
-
- >Actually, Suzanne and Edward aren't the only people who think I can do that.
- >At the time my boyfriend of about three years, who was the only person I was
- >sleeping with when I got pregnant, told me that it definately was not his. So
- >I guess I am capable of getting pregnant all by myself!
-
- You may be right -- I can only wonder whose he thought it was, given those
- facts...
-
- >>--PLH, I don't think that's how Dale's daughter got here, though...
-
- >Well, I didn't think that's how my pregnancy happened until my ex-boyfriend
- >cleared things up for me.
-
- I wonder how many kids are out there now that he says aren't his?
-
- (If only we'd known at the time, you could have looked to the west (Clark is
- up in New England, isn't it?) for the arrival of the three wise men --
- myself, Mark, Galen, and Dean. Okay, make that the FOUR wise men. I didn't
- expect the bloody Spanish Inquisition. :-)
-
- --PLH, anyone says the crossbeam's gone out of skew on't treadle, I'm outta
- here...
- --
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