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  1. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!linac!uchinews!ellis!eeb1
  3. From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
  4. Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep6.015506.3968@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <182pdpINN16q@gilligan.East.Sun.COM> <nyikos.715471986@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <18511vINN1ih@gilligan.East.Sun.COM>
  10. Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 01:55:06 GMT
  11. Lines: 27
  12.  
  13. In article <18511vINN1ih@gilligan.East.Sun.COM>
  14. mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori) writes:
  15. >In article <nyikos.715471986@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
  16. >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
  17.  
  18. >>Scientists and doctors were near unanimity about human life beginning
  19. >>at conception until it became politically convenient to claim that
  20. >>it began some other time.
  21.  
  22. >Can you back this up with references? I want to read it some-
  23. >where besides here.
  24.  
  25. I think he's exaggerating, but the AMA did lead the charge to outlaw
  26. abortion, way back when.  However, I don't think doctors changed their
  27. minds because it became "politically convenient" to do so; my theory
  28. is that the doctor's minds were changed by an increase of information.
  29. Doctors were pro-life when the AMA wanted to outlaw abortion because
  30. it became clear that the z/e/f's development was a continual process
  31. with no sharp dividing lines from conception to birth.  Now, the
  32. majority of doctors are (I think) pro-choice because the stages in
  33. this development are clearer.
  34.  
  35. -- 
  36. Pro-Choice                 Anti-Roe                     - E. Elizabeth Bartley
  37.             Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
  38.  
  39. Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
  40.