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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Illegal abortions
- Message-ID: <24576@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 21:43:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.112909.25187@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1992Sep3.202927.24720@ncsu.edu>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
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- In talk.abortion, dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <24534@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- >bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
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- ]> I think you are probably right. A free clue though, most of the pro-life
- ]> crowd, at least the most vocal of them, are also for restricting contra-
- ]> ceptives. So the comparison is quite appropiate, don't you agree?
-
- ]No, I don't agree that the number of deaths from illegal abortion in
- ]Brazil can be carried over to this country. First you would have to show
- ]that the US population would agree to restrict access to contraceptives,
- ]and I don't think that's likely to happen. Secondly, you would have to
- ]explain the discrepancy between the number of deaths from illegal abortion
- ]in Brazil and the number of deaths in the US before Roe v. Wade. As I
- ]posted earlier, the CDC reported 39 deaths from illegal abortion in 1972.
-
- Well, Doug, this is a first in my experience. I asked a question, and
- you gave a straight-forward answer. I have noted this, and will never
- say you *always* dodge questions with more questions. Congratulations.
-
- First, if abortion ever does become illegal, those forces that managed
- to do this would have no trouble passing a law against contraception,
- something the most outspoken of this movement also proclaim they wish,
- as it is a moral sin (religion, you know) and the people that would
- be in power would most likely be at least half as crazy as those nuts.
- This is why I think it would be a very real and appropriate comparison
- if abortion were to be outlawed. Our opinions on this differ, and I
- don't see how bickering about a hypothetical situation is going to convince
- either of us that the other has a better case. So unless you can think
- of some new suppositions, let's drop this.
-
- Ron
-
- Potassium Benzoate included as a preserver.
-