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- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
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- Subject: Re: TOO YOUNG TO CHOOSE
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:10:47 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.721340763@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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- #Granted, for some it is a major inconvenience. That's why I prefer a 4-hour
- #waiting period. Gives the woman time to go out and have lunch, or
- #whatever, and study the information on risks, etc. without clinic employees
- #hurrying her along.
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- The sidewalk harassers here frequently urge patients entering the
- clinic to go to a nearby restaurant, eat something, and think over
- their decision. I see that Petey Honey joins them in either their
- ignorance or their deviousness. The patients always point out that
- they have been instructed not to eat before the procedure, and they
- often ask if the harasser thinks that they're stupid enough to disobey
- a doctor's instructions. I'm not sure if Petey Honey thinks that
- he could drum up business for his squad of ambulance chasing lawyers
- by recommending that these women eat lunch, or if he's just too stupid
- to realize that eating before any surgery, even minor surgery, is a
- bad idea.
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- In any case, he has proved that he has no idea what happens inside
- a typical clinic. I wonder if the babbling fool realizes how many
- women are refused abortions in clinics because they are not sure
- of their decision. I wonder if he realizes that some women's lives
- have been saved by their visit to a clinic for an abortion. (Many
- young women don't see their doctor on a regular basis. Countless
- cases of cervical displasia are found in the pre-abortion examination.
- I have a dear friend whose Hodgin's disease was discovered by the
- doctor at a local clinic when he examined her before her abortion.
- She wouldn't be here today if he hadn't been a competent doctor.)
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- Susan
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