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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: What The Supreme Court Said
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.065009.27743@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 06:50:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.220938.6270@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan8.200300.1575@news.columbia.edu>
- >rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
- >>Marty Helgesen <MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- >>
- >>> Therefore, a woman who wants an abortion during the last trimester of
- >>> her pregnancy need find only one doctor, the abortionist himself, who
- >>> will say that the pregnancy endangers the mother's health, using the
- >>> meaninglessly broad definition of health quoted above.
- >
- >> What illusory world do you live in? Do you have any idea how few
- >> doctors there are who will do third trimester abortions? There are
- >> several states that have none.
- >
- >Do you have any idea how few murders of people named "Robert
- >Johnston" have occurred? There are several states where no "Robert
- >Johnston" has ever been murdered. Why do we need laws which
- >protect the Robert Johnstons of this country from being murdered,
- >when it hasn't been shown to be a problem?
- >
- >Furthermore, it's clear that murdering a person named "Robert
- >Johnston" is not wrong because it's rare for such a person to be
- >murdered. And even if such a person was murdered, it would be a
- >waste of taxpayer's money to prosecute the murderer.
- >
- Clever of you to delete the portion where Robert mentioned the little
- fact that none of the physicians who perform late-term abortion will
- do it "on demand".
-
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