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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Is it Christian values or chavinism?
- Message-ID: <nyikos.720809715@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <bob1.719767433@cos> <nyikos.719895484@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <bob1.720369116@cos>
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- Date: 3 Nov 92 16:55:15 GMT
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- In <bob1.720369116@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
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- >In <nyikos.719895484@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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- >>Be honest and give statistics. 1 in 100,000 for vaginal childbirth,
- >>which is what you've been talking about. And forget the religious
-
- >There are lies, damned lies, and there are statistics - Benjamin Disraeli
-
- There are statistics, and there are statistics. These are relevant to
- our discussion, which includes some pretty powerful claims by you about
- the risk of death childbirth poses for women; claims which you conveniently
- deleted above.
-
- There are lies, damned lies, and there are selective deletions - Peter Ny.
-
- >> You're stuck in the 1930's.
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- >No Peter, I am stuck in the 1780's when some pretty intelligent people
- >wrote the Constitution, the whole concept of which is a free people.
-
- Now you are stuck in 1973, when Justice Blackmun claimed to find
- something in the Constitution that those pretty intelligent people, to
- whom he cannot hold a candle, never intended.
-
- >Not just free men, but free people (which I assume means women too).
-
- On the other hand, by your standards, unborn children, who were
- protected by the British common law (which the colonies inherited)
- do not even have the right to life, much less any other freedom.
-
- >You must watch Quantum Leap too much, as it certainly takes a leap
- >of such proportions to come up with a pro-abort label based upon
- >what I wrote.
-
- Quantum leaps are often of subatomic proportions.
-
- You posted a lot of scary stuff, designed (though not perhaps by you, but
- by the people who first came up with the kind of arguments you were giving)
- scare women away from childbirth, with no counterbalancing statements
- about the risks of abortion.
-
- > If you are seeking labels, save yourself the time
- >since you would never know how to label me.
-
- Well, if you don't put your foot in your mouth again the way you
- did in your propagandistic post, you won't get labeled by me. I
- only said you were a prime candidate for the label, but like so many
- talk.abortion pro-choicers, you have problems with reading comprehension.
-
- Peter Nyikos
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