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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: Simon Booth comes out pro-choice
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.023459.7473@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:34:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct10.232122.13523@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >[Ok, Simon. Please subscribe to talk.abortion, and let's take this out
- >of all the rest of the newsgroups, ok?]
- >
- >[Followups set to talk.abortion.]
- >
- >In article <1992Oct8.073626.1003@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >>
- >>Actually, there will be ice floes on the River Styx before THAT happens.
- >
- >Please post your documentation showing that the River Styx doesn't have
- >ice floes...
- >
- >>
- >>Let me rephrase that--I should have said "Perhaps there are extreme
- >>circumstances where abortion might be an option, but I am still against it.."
- >
- >Ok, Simon, let's get to the "extreme" circumstances. If my Aunt Ann gets
- >pregnant and tries to carry to term, she *WILL* have her spinal column snap,
- >and wind up being paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
- >
- >She's on the pill. Ed (her husband) uses a condom every time they have
- >sex. They don't want to go in for steralization on the hopes that they
- >will come up with some sort of precedure that will fix Ann's back, in which
- >case they'd love to have another child.
- >
- >She gets pregnant.
- >
- >Would you let her have an abortion?
- >
- >Why should she have to ask you?
- >
- >>I can't just walk away from this. I have committed myself to this debate
- >>and cannot give up. That would be wrong.
- >
- >Actually, you're wrong. But that's ok.
- >
- >>
- >>I have corrected my previous posting that was thought to be a vote for pro-
- >>choice. I should not have been so vague.
- >
- >No you shouldn't have. The only way people can tell what you're attempting
- >to get across is to read your words.
- >--
- >=kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu | B(0-4) c- d- e++ f- g++ k(+) m r(-) s++(+) t | TSAKC=
- >=My thoughts, my posts, my ideas, my responsibility, my beer, my pizza. OK???=
- >=It's National Coming Out Day. Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are! FW
- About my River Styx comment: Anyone familiar with Greek mythology will know
- where that River is supposed to be, and will understand that remark.
-