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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715469156@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- References: <nyikos.714853495@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <BtM9BC.7sq.2@cs.cmu.edu> <nyikos.715037146@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <Btrrt3.4w5.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:25:56 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In <Btrrt3.4w5.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
-
- >In article <nyikos.715037146@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >#In <BtM9BC.7sq.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >##In article <nyikos.714853495@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >###In <1992Aug24.222123.25747@watson.ibm.com> Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
- >##[text deleted]
- >#
- >#Talking about the Becky Bell case:
- >#
- >####What I heard was that it was pneumonia caused by a septic abortion.
- >###
- >###What I heard was that it was pneumonia caused by vomit going back down
- >###the wrong way, said vomit being caused by the drugs she was taking
- >###recreationally.
-
- >##Some fools will continue to give voice to the lies of a twisted
- >##old man, but the facts remain.
- >#
- >#I'll need to see them to make a judgment. I have a very open mind on this
- >#case, by the way. In the Spring 1991 _Issues in Science and Technology_
- >#(a national magazine available, I hope, in most university libraries
- >#despite its biases) I wrote the following:
-
- >You have an open mind, but you repeat Willke's slurs in a public
- >forum. Right.
-
- Well, how else am I to get at the truth? You have a perfect right to
- post the coroner's slurs--sorry, cheap shot, let me start again--
-
- You have a perfect right to post the coroner's account of what happened,
- and also why he considers Willke's judgment to be fantasy. Let the
- readers judge for themselves who has the stronger case.
-
- ># O'Keeffe and Jones...treat as undisputed fact the claim that Becky Bell
- ># "died from an abortion obtained outside the health care system,"
- .....
- ># John C. Willke, the focus of the attack, has made a case that
- ># (1) Becky Bell's "abortion" was a miscarriage, not induced; and
- ># (2) that the cause of death was a lung infection brought on by drug-
- ># taking, not the "abortion". His case is still open to debate, but
- ># it is certainly much better documented in his published writings
- ># than anything in the O'Keeffe/Jones article.
-
- >This was a letter to the editor, right? I'll look it up.
-
- Yes, although the place is not called "letters to the editor," it's
- called "Forum", and when I wrote to the editor I did not think it had
- a chance of being printed. I thought these "Forum" letters were solicited by
- the editors and they would not print unsolicited letters. Had I known
- otherwise, I would have chosen my words even more carefully than I did,
- although I am reasonably happy about the outcome. They did very little
- editing, fortunately.
-
-