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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: MENSTRUAL EXTRACTION AND THE 5-WEEK LIMIT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.233052.18819@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <nyikos.720223561@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Oct30.130948.10139@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <nyikos.720712272@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:30:52 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.720712272@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- }In <1992Oct30.130948.10139@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
-
- }> No "pro-life" type has yet provided any examples
- }>or statistics that legislation of any type would bring about the
- }>changes they seem to desire.
- }
- }Because the idea of a 5-week limit is totally untested.
-
- Uh, you might want to read that again. I said that there have been no
- statistics concerning legislation of any type. I suppose that neither
- the 4.999999-week limit nor the 5.00001-week limits have been tested as
- well. Peter, you even quote what I wrote before you responded to it!
- Do you have trouble reading or just an extremely short attention span?
-
- }On the other
- }hand, LOTS of countries have a 12-week limit [again with exceptions
- }similar to the ones I would grant after week 5] and that seems to
- }have worked quite well.
-
- Where legislation has brought about desired change as opposed to no
- legislation? Since there are "LOTS" of countries that have tried this
- I should assume you'd have no trouble offering some stats, but you,
- continuing a trend, do not. Sigh.
-
-
- [a posting containing stats about Romania and abortion mentioned]
-
- }I missed that one, and am very curious about it. I would appreciate
- }a repost, or an e-mailing.
-
- I don't have it archived, and I can't recall who posted it, but could
- it be reposted or mailed to Peter?
-
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