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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Easily observed crite [truncationsRus]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.055232.9006@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 05:52:32 GMT
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- In article <odel65s@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Aug8.145825.24454@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu writes:
- >|In article <1992Aug6.225316.8035@nas.nasa.gov> dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >|[Deleted: Dan asks how we'd rate the words...]
- >|1) Legal.
- >|2) Safe.
- >|3) Rare.
- >|4) Early.
- >
- >I think I'd rank 'em the same way.
- >
- >"Legal" and "safe" seem a little redundant to me... if abortion
- >is a legal medical procedure, it's going to be a safe medical
- >procedure. I also want it legal so that women aren't harassed,
- >persecuted, & prosecuted for ending pregnancies. "Legal" seems
- >a prerequisite for most of the other qualifiers, too. A legal
- >abortion, available in your local clinic or hospital, is easier
- >to obtain (and hence more likely to happen early) than an illegal
- >abortion, obtained through a network of strangers.
-
- Not necessarily. It's perfectly legal for a doctor to prescribe 1400 mg of
- AZT, 1500mg of DDI, and 600 mg of DDC for an AIDS patient. Taking that much
- medication will probably kill them, but it's perfectly legal.
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