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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: "only 3 doctors...perform third trimester abortions" is unsupported
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep03.232254.32532@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 23:22:54 GMT
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- > = dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >> = 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.
- >
- >I think it's rather unscientific to use a single piece of anecdotal
- >evidence for extrapolating to the typical case.
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- You're right. In the more typical case, she wouldn't have lots of money,
- and she'd die.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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