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- From: stevens@eatdust (John Stevens)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.033903.12606@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 03:39:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.210420.9617@coopsol.com> gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
- ><1992Aug31.150147.12678@advtech.uswest.com> stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) said:
- >><1992Aug25.204749.4281@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
- >>><1992Aug25.182118.13682@advtech.uswest.com> stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) writes:
- >>>> <1992Aug23.235355.8281@nwnexus.WA.COM> jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer
- >>>> ><1992Aug20.141415.3923@spdc.ti.com> serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike
- >>>> >
- >>Nope. It is, however, partially my body.
- >
- >This argument has been used before. My reply is this: You contributed
- >1/2 of one cells worth of DNA. At the eight week abortion point the fetus
- >consists of millions of cells. For sake of argument let's say 3 million
- >cells.
-
- Fair enough.
-
- >You get 1/3000000 worth of the decision.
-
- And the woman only contributed 1/2 of one cells worth of DNA. So her share
- in the decision is, Ummm . . . (click, click, click of mouse using X
- windows Hp calculator program . . .) 1/3000000 of the decision.
-
- Wow! Look at that! You've mathematically proven that the contributions
- are equal!
-
- So the the other 2999999/3000000 worth of the decision is the babies, since
- he/she grew those cells, not mom or dad.
-
- >See how insignificant your opinion is?
-
- Yup. Just EXACTLY as insignificant as the womans.
-
- >>I disagree. Obviously. Getting it INTO her body was a joint decision.
- >>Getting it out, should also be a joint decision.
- >
- >You haven't shown compelling evidence that we should accept your premise.
-
- Nor, have you.
-
- And the next time you try a mathematical argument, you might try remembering
- that data and information are two different things.
-
- >Gordon
-
- John
- stevens@uswest.com
-