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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: repost
- Message-ID: <nyikos.714320492@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug18.155348.34448@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:21:32 GMT
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- In <1992Aug18.155348.34448@watson.ibm.com> Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug18.122206.650@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- > posted by gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>
- >> For now, I'll just refer y'all to _Aborted Women, Silent No More_
-
- >Do you have any references that *haven't* been thoroughly refuted?
-
- Please tell me where the refutations have appeared, also what portions
- have been refuted.
-
- Admittedly, there are weak points in the book. The idea that the
- experience of the WEBA women is statistically the same as that of
- abortions in general is the weakest, and seems downright silly to me.
- But you can erase all that and still have the most powerful indictment
- of the present abortion picture I have ever seen.
-
- BTW I tried to find the book in our University Library. Data on it
- comes up on the screen, and the notation after its circulation status
- says "Lost". I wonder how many other libraries have had their
- copies of this explosive book "Lost".
-
- Fortunately, I have my own copy, which I will be citing from time to
- time, and you are free to try to refute what I post from it.
-
- >> My definition of "early": prior to sentience (would be even nicer
- >> if prior to implantation--I think the Pill and IUD's should remain
- >> legal unless they have an unacceptable number of side-effects for
- >> the woman). Sentience, I believe, is present by the end of the
- >> seventh week [not month, as Ms. Bartley seems to assume].
-
- >You're incorrect. Neuroscientists place the minimal time for
- >personhood at 7 *months* (28 weeks).
-
- This is bullshit. There are people calling themselves bioethicists
- that say this. Please name some neuroscientists, and I'll name some
- others that say differently.
-
- >Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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