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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: An argument for better sex ed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.001433.21079@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 00:14:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.233232.8340@crd.ge.com>
- james g keegan jr <keegan@crd.ge.com> writes:
-
- > "All fetuses _are_ white. "White" means lack of pigment. Black
- > newborns are born white, and turn black shortly thereafter."
- > Suzanne Forgach <1991Jun13.232919.9128@noao.edu>
-
- Ms. Forgach's statement has been proven to be essentially correct;
- see the attached article. You can wipe that quote off your
- archives now.
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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: suzanne on pigmentation and fetuses... she's correct!
- Message-ID: <1992Oct22.020549.9258@ncsu.edu>
-
- A few weeks ago, I responded to a quote from Ms. Suzanne Forgach
- in which she claimed something to the effect that black infants
- are born white, and turn black shortly thereafter. As it turns
- out, Ms. Forgach is basically correct:
-
- "One other point worth comment concerns skin color. Dark-skinned
- babies are born with light pigmentation; the coloration then
- darkens over the next 2 to 6 days. The darker skin found
- around the navel, nail beds, and ear lobes gives some indication
- of future coloration during childhood and adult years."
-
- _The Process of Human Development_, Second Edition,
- Little, Brown, and Company Publishers, 1986, pg. 124
-
- There's also a picture in the book of a black mother and
- her newborn infant with the caption, "The mother and
- daughter exemplify the pigmentation differences that
- are evident in newborns of dark-skinned parents".
-
- The mother in the picture is very dark-skinned, and
- the newborn infant is of very light pigmentation, but
- I wouldn't quite characterize the skin color as "white".
- But I think Ms. Forgach's description of the pigmentation
- changes is basically accurate, although perhaps not
- quite technically correct.
-
- I apologize to Ms. Forgach for doubting her word.
- I guess I should have done a little more research
- on the subject before I opened my mouth.
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
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