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- From: dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: "only 3 doctors...perform third trimester abortions" is unsupported
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.223210.12824@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Aug31.192523.24744@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <nyikos.715385290@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep2.183926.21612@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:32:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.183926.21612@ncar.ucar.edu>
- kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
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- > 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
- > ...
- > 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.
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- I think it's rather unscientific to use a single piece of anecdotal
- evidence for extrapolating to the typical case.
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- >-Brian (Have a nice day)
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- Doug Holtsinger
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