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- From: kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman)
- Subject: Re: "only 3 doctors ... perform third trimester abortions"
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.183926.21612@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: NCAR, Boulder CO
- References: <nyikos.715284833@mil <1992Aug31.192523.24744@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <nyikos.715385290@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:39:26 GMT
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- >>> = nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >> = smgarvin@nyx.cs.du.edu (susan garvin) writes:
- > = nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>>"List more doctors?" I'm still looking for someone to complete
- >>>the list of three.
- >
- >>You and your roving band of terrorists will just have to
- >>do your own research, Nyikos.
- >
- >I resent that crack about terrorists. I am no more a terrorist than
- >Mahatma Ghandi or Martin Luther King.
-
- You may not be a terrorist, but it seems you're self-righteous enough
- to compare yourself to Mahatma Ghandi & Martin Luther King.
-
- >>>So far there is George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas. Who and where are
- >>>the other two?
-
- #2: Dr. Warren Hern in Boulder, Colorado. I mention this because it seems
- the terrorist wing of the "pro-life" movement already nows where he is
- and has fired rifle shots through the clinic windows. I think this
- falls squarely in the category of "terrorist". Dr. Hern now works
- behind 6 layers of bullet proof glass.
-
- If I recall correctly, 60 minutes explained how one woman, who needed an
- abortion to save her life, was refused an abortion at several hospitals
- either because they had no doctors that knew how to do it, or because
- they had doctors that knew how but refused to do so because they know
- what happens to doctors who do abortions (remember the rifle shots?).
- Finally, after traveling by plane through several states, being turned
- away from several hospitals, she arrived unconscious at the clinic of
- Dr. Hern and received the abortion, apparently narrowly avoiding death.
- Is this what is known as "abortion on demand"?
-
- By indiscriminatly terrorizing all doctors who perform abortions, many
- in the pro-life camp have a defacto policy of banning *all* abortions
- for *any* reason, INCLUDING to save the life of the pregnant woman.
- Further, the "pro-life" "Lambs of God" may well find some "Hands of God"
- to answer their prayers for the DEATH of all who might perform an abortion.
-
- One might argue that technically the US law grants "abortion on demand",
- but this anecdote illustrates that in reality it can be extremely
- difficult to obtain an abortion EVEN IN LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS
- and EVEN IF YOU HAVE LOTS OF MONEY to fly from state to state. I think
- this explains why many are opposed to ANY restrictions on abortion
- even though they may agree with the spirit of SOME restrictions.
-
- -Brian (Have a nice day)
-