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- From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
- Subject: Re: THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.060305.4798@Cadence.COM>
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- References: <1992Aug17.160630.23938@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug20.210023.11560@noao.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:03:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.210023.11560@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article by bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman):
- >>
- >> The figure on third trimester abortions is that they represent
- >> less than one in one thousand abortions performed in America.
- >
- >1/1000 * (1.5 million) = 1500 babies per year = 4 viable babies per day,
- >every single day of the year, that are put to death for no fault of their
- >own. So this is what America stands for, is it.
-
- Uh, Suzzy, just because a fetus is in the third trimester does not mean it
- is viable. For example, anencephalic babies are not viable even when they
- have gone through a full-term nine-month pregnancy.
-
- Does anyone have any figures as to how many third-tris that are aborted
- really ARE viable?
-
- >You loose. Just by not using your head.
-
- Is there a verb missing in the first sentence? I know there is a subject
- missing from the second.
-
- -Pete Zakel
- (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)
-
- Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were
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