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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: compromise (was Re: Back Again To Father Notification...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.205914.13604@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:59:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.212758.25505@nas.nasa.gov>
- dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
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- >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >> Roe v. Wade is essentially unrestricted abortion-on-demand throughout
- >> the term of pregnancy. In Roe v. Wade, the Court ruled that the states
- >> may not prohibit third trimester abortions when the abortion is necessary
- >> to preserve the woman's ``health'' or life, but the Court gave a very broad
- >> definition to the term ``health'', including emotional and psychological
- >> health (see the documentation below). Additional documentation can be
- >> provided upon request.
-
- > demonstrates fairly well one of the reasons I would oppose third
- > tri-mester legislation that restricted abortions only for health of
- > mother. It is fairly clear that does not understand the meaning
- > of health. He would want health very narrowly defined so that only
- > women that meet his criteria would qualify. I don't want people
- > such as defining health for others. I much prefer that health
- > be defined by the people involved with the help of medical
- > professionals.
-
- I never said that I wanted to define the term `health', much less
- that I wanted to define it narrowly. Before Roe v. Wade, many
- states had abortion laws in which they had given a definition
- to the term `health' which was well understood by doctors. Of
- course, Dan King would have us believe that the term mental
- `health' includes killing mentally retarded children so that
- their parents can be spared emotional grief.
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- >Dan King
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- Doug Holtsinger
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