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- From: cswicego@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Cynthia Swicegood)
- Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.093844.20481@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
- References: <1992Aug18.055058.14190@watson.ibm.com> <1992Aug18.133317.16209@ncsu.edu> <1992Aug23.000518.18051@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:38:44 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Aug23.000518.18051@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.133317.16209@ncsu.edu>
- >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >><.. note follow-ups to talk.abortion, once again ..>
- >>In article <1992Aug18.055058.14190@watson.ibm.com>
- >>margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>>dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- >>>> Premature infants that have been born between 21 and 24 weeks have
- >>>> been known to survive. The reported "third trimester" figures that
- >>>> you cite do not represent all post-viability abortions, but only those
- >>>> performed after 24 weeks.
- >
- >>> In other words, my figures address Mr. Moore's misconception regarding
- >>> the number of third-trimester abortions, and your comments had nothing
- >>> to do with what he said (quoted above).
- >
- >>I'm entitled to point out that your figures do not represent the number
- >>of post-viability abortions. That's all I was doing. Don't take it so
- >>hard.
- >
- >You didn't make it clear that you were addressing a different issue
- >(viability, rather than third trimester).
- >
- >You haven't yet answered my questions regarding what *percentage* of
- >fetuses from 21 to 24 weeks survive. If it's something like 5-10%, I
- >wouldn't consider it post-viability. If it's over 50%, I would.
- >Between those it gets murky.
- >
- >--
- >Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- > Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-
-
- Abortions are wrong! There's no difference between a fetus, a baby, and
- an adult, these are just different steps in human development. People
- say that a fetus isn't anything because it can't survive outside the
- womb, well a baby already born can't survive outside the womb either
- unless someone takes care of him/her and feeds him/her. You're talking
- about human life, no matter what stage it's at and it's wrong to kill.
- Plain and simple.
-
-