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- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: More Specious Unsubstantiated LIES from Nyikos
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:47:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.043505.18727@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- #In <1992Sep10.222220.27942@rigel.econ.uga.edu> mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills) writes:
- ## Look, people. Just because Nyikos is anti-choice and generally clueless about
- ## abortion doesn't mean EVERYTHING he writes is NECESSARILY wrong. THINK and
- ## do some research YOURSELF before you flame.
- ##
- ## # tanj
- ## ## Nyikos
- ##
- ## ##Fact: some Planned Parenthood clinics do not use anesthesia.
- ##
- ## #Substantiate this so-called fact. Or retract it.
- ## #My guess is that all you have is whole-cloth "testimony" again.
- ##
- ## This "so-called fact" is true, unless PP has some arbitrary internal rule
- ## requiring anesthesia. When I had my abortion, anesthesia was NOT required,
- ## although it was strongly suggested.
- #
- #His statement implies that they don't use it at all, which is quite
- #different than not *required*. If he had said "Some clinics don't
- #force you to use anesthesia", it would have been clearer, but not
- #sounded as damning.
-
- Indeed. A clinic which gives a single patient anesthesia "uses"
- anesthesia. Unless Nyikos can prove that there are PP clinics
- which will not give anesthesia to anyone, he's lying.
-
- This is probably another of those things that he "heard" and
- didn't bother to substantiate.
-
- Susan
-