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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
- Message-ID: <t2bn0+f.ray@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:16:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.155443.23622@menudo.uh.edu> <17duanINNcvl@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <nyikos.714846005@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes ...
- > regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>Not in a vacuum, no, it doesn't. In the *real* *world*, however, where a
- >>puritanical society has dodged simple information to young teens, and
- >>where prejudice and misinformation about 'the opposite sex' abounds, I
- >>think it does.
- >
- >This is vintage Planned Parenthood propaganda, designed to garner public
- >support for school-based sex clinics which haven't made a dime's bit
- >of difference in pregnancy rates.
-
- Then how do you explain the fact the in countries that educate kids about
- sex and that have freely available birth control also have the lowest rates
- of abortions and teen pregnancies?
-
- And that countries with oppressive attitudes towards sex have higher rates
- of abortion? As an example, Mexico, a strongly Catholic country with about
- a fourth the population of the US has 1.3 times as many abortions per year.
- Compare with similar stats for Sweden some time.
-
- >>Where do you live? In the vacuum, or the real world?
- >
- >The latter, and NOT the make-believe world of Planned Parenthood.
-
- As opposed to the make-beleive world of Peter Nyikos? Do you discredit
- everything that doesn't fit into your perception of the world by labelling
- it as being mere propaganda?
-
- >More vintage Planned Parenthood Propaganda. I wonder how long ago this
- >really was an accurate reflection of our society.
-
- >More vintage PPP.
-
- >I already knew to be loaded with pro-abortion propaganda in the
-
- >source, is the most cunning piece of pro-abortion propaganda I have yet
-
- Hmmm?
-
- --
- Ray Fischer
- rfischer@cs.stanford.edu
- ray@netcom.com
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