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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Is Peter going to be enrolling at NCSU? (Was: Badges of Honor)
- Message-ID: <nyikos.716336496@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: You expect me to mark my deletions? Dream on...
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- Date: 12 Sep 92 22:21:36 GMT
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- In <#q7yv=f@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
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- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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- >>Elizabeth thought the umbilical cord was a part of the mother's body.
-
- >This is not what Elizabeth posted. She said "that part of the
- >mother's body which attaches to the umbilical cord", in reference
- >to what the mother might reasonably have removed.
-
- >>>Do you have reading comphrension problems, Peter? You've just "waved away"
- >>>most of a woman's control over _HER_ body when you "wave away" her right
- >>>to obtain an abortion.
-
- >>I never waved it away under all circumstances. And what sort of
- >>units of measurement do you use in your "most"? My mother hid her
- >>last pregnancy up to the day she went into labor, and went on teaching
- >>in public school all the way up to that day, despite a rule that
- >>pregnant women must quit teaching long before their due date.
-
- >Your little anecdote, while tedious, still does not address the
- >above paragraph.
-
- It does, but to explain why would have made the anecdote even more tedious
- to you.
-
- My point was simply that my mother's freedom to do what she normally
- did was essentially untouched by the pregnancy. Granted, the birth
- and its aftermath did tie her down considerably, but my brother who
- was born on the day in question has repaid his "debt" to my mother
- many times over.
-
- >>Peter Nyikos
-
- > -rocker
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-