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- From: jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle)
- Subject: Re: control
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.205019.2032@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1992Sep5.102619.11915@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <nyikos.715899847@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:50:19 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.715899847@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1992Sep5.102619.11915@rigel.econ.uga.edu> mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills) writes:
- >
- >>CONTRACEPTIONN IS BESIDE THE POINT!! Abortion "prior to the end of the 5th
- >>week" is basically beside the point also, since paltry few women know
- >>that they are pregnant by that time,
- >
- >If so, sex education has done a lousy job of teaching about menstrual
- >cycles and pregnancy tests, and about the desirability of EARLY abortions.
- >
-
- I hate to burst your bubble, but even if a woman KNOWS she is pregnant at
- 5 weeks (that's three weeks post-conception), no test can be reliably
- performed at that time. Therefore, a doctor can't perform an abortion
- because he could be accused of performing an abortion on a non-pregnant
- woman. Would you prefer that doctors not require pregnancy tests to
- confirm a pregnancy prior to an abortion? I think not.
- >
- >I would expect a lot of women have made their minds up, even before
- >having intercourse, that if they get pregnant, they'll abort.
-
- Well, you're wrong in your "expectation". Most women think it over
- very carefully before deciding--either on abortion or continuing a
- pregnancy.
-
- >
- >This is a bogus argument. What's a 24 hour waiting period compared to
- >5 weeks?
- >
-
- You are assuming that a woman knows for 5 weeks. This is not true.
- There are very few women, if any, who know two weeks prior to conception
- that they will absolutely become pregnant at that time. The absolute
- soonest a woman could possibly know would be at conception. She's already
- two weeks gone already! And as I stated before, she couldn't possibly tes
- t positive with absolute assurance at 5 weeks.
-
- >
- >Well, I can't know when sentience occurs, but there seems to be a
- >prima facie case for it beginning some time between the end of the
- >5th week and the end of the 8th. Like I said, I am open to moving
- >up the cutoff point to the 8-week point.
- >
-
- I think you should discuss this with Elizabeth B, but I'm pretty sure
- that what you're thinking about doesn't occur unti the 23rd week or so.
-
-
- Jennifer
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