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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: I just thought this needed to be repeated... (Was: AOANPW)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.164532.11582@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: In which Susan says everything I want to, in words I could never find
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 16:45:32 GMT
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- [Note: I've basically deleted everything but Susan's words here...]
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- In article <Bu4qGG.1Ho.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >
- >I'd find it a lot more repugnant to see the dead bodies of
- >the women who would be denied abortions by people like
- >you. I'd find it a lot more repugnant to see the shattered
- >families created when the wife and mother is permanently
- >physically impaired by a pregnancy that people like you
- >would force her to carry to term. I'd find it a lot more
- >repugnant to watch an infant die in pain because you
- >would insist that it suffered needlessly.
- >
- >I saw photographs of one of the cancerous tumors they
- >removed from me. I am not comparing a fetus to the tumor,
- >understand that. I am saying that the operation and the
- >results of that operation were disgusting to look at.
- >On the other hand, I would surely be dead if that operation
- >had not been performed.
- >
- >You continue to miss that point, though. Many life-saving
- >operations are hideously ugly.
- >
- >I would strongly doubt that there is a single person who reads
- >this group and supports legal abortion who does not know
- >what a late term fetus looks like, and who can't imagine
- >what happens when such a fetus is aborted.
- >
- >The abortions done in Dr. Tiller's clinic are tragic, Nyikos.
- >The alternative to those abortions, though, is even more
- >tragic to the women who undergo them. Why you would force
- >them to suffer even more is beyond me.
- >
- >Susan
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