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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Cochran's Restriction Considered Harmless (?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.164858.3121@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Nov7.024629.20691@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov7.173924.20461@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov10.034943.13954@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:48:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.034943.13954@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov7.173924.20461@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov7.024629.20691@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Nov5.040523.13980@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>>>In article <1992Oct29.014024.14540@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
- >>>>>Keith Cochran candidly admitted:
- >>>>
- >>>>>"...let me
- >>>>> tell what sort of *legal restrictions* I support wrt abortion:
- >>>>
- >>>>> 1)The pregnant woman must voluntarily ask the doctor to perform one.
- >>>>
- >>>>What when she's in a coma? There was a case a few years back when a
- >>>>pro-life group went to court to stop a man from having his comatose
- >>>>wife given a very late abortion (he had some reason to believe it
- >>>>would bring her out of the coma; she did recover a couple of months
- >>>>later).... In that case the judge threw it out of court ruling lack
- >>>>of standing. Would you have let him do it?
- >>>
- >>>I don't know. One of the reasons why I refuse to advocate any sort of
- >>>legislation wrt abortion is that I know I don't know.
- >>
- >>You advocate a "legal restriction" on abortion, Cochran. Mind explaining
- >>to me what you think the difference is between that and "legisation", in
- >>this context?
- >
- >Let me put it into small words, Kibbles:
- >
- >I don't think women should have abortions.
- >
- >I refuse to write, or allow to be written, any laws which would restict
- >a woman's right to obtain an abortion.
- >
- >Got it?
-
- You failed to answer my question. Here it is again, rephrased in the hope that
- you may be able to answer it: if you're unwilling to allow laws to be written
- that restrict abortion, why then do you support a "legal restriction" on
- abortion?
-
- Things would be a lot simpler if you just withdrew your support for that
- "legal restriction", Cochran. At best, it was just a lame attempt to impress
- Mr. Lanier with how "centrist" you are, but it's becoming painfully obvious
- to me, at least, that you have no intention of following this "legal
- restriction" through to its final conclusion -- restrictive abortion
- legislation. You can't stop the march of reason, Cochran, and reason dictates
- that "legal restrictions", which don't already exist, require new legislation,
- if they are to have any meaning or substance.
-
- What's stopping you from withdrawing your irreponsible statement, except your
- ego and/or your inability to admit a simple mistake?
-
- - Kevin
-