From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
Subject: Re: BECKY BELL'S AUTOPSY AND COMMENTARY
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  3 Nov 92 21:58:31 GMT

In <1992Oct29.015522.11000@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:

>In article <nyikos.720068973@milo.math.scarolina.edu>, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>> In <1992Oct24.031610.17549@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> >Suzanne's argument from authority, based on Nathanson
>> >and Willke's credentials, is pretty stupid considering
>> >that the doctor who performed the autopsy has better
>> >credentials regarding autopsies, neither Nathanson nor
>> >Willke examined the body, and the doctor who performed
>>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>> >the autopsy contradicts them both.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> Proof, please.  
>> 
>> The coroner,

BTW the coroner did not examine the body during autopsy either.  From the
autopsy report:

				IDENTIFICATION

	...Rebecca Suzanne Bell...was identified by a Marion County
	Coroner's toe tag.  Persons present for the autopsy included
	Dr. John E. Pless, Evidence Technician Jim Floyd, Mr. Steven
	O'Neal and David Becsey.  Identification photographs are [*sic*]
	obtained by the evidence technician.

>> and the doctor who signed the autopsy report alongside
>> the one who prepared it, may have better credentials as regards
>> autopsies in general, but you have given no reason to believe they know
>> more about septic abortion than  Drs. Bernard Nathanson, John Willke,
>> John Curry, Curtis Harris, or the four prominent medical specialists
>> whom Dr. Curtis Harris, president of the American Academy of Medical
>> Ethics, consulted.

And the law of averages would lead to the common-sense conclusion that
a Fellow in Forensic Pathology in the county where Ms. Bell died would
be less likely to know about septic abortion than a man who presided
over 60,000 abortions, and hand-picked experts, picked by Dr. Curtis 
Harris, president of the American Academy of Medical Ethics.

>I can only go by what the examining doctor reported.

Misdirection.  I ask for evidence that the doctor who did the autopsy
report contradicted Willke and Nathanson.  I am still waiting.

>have taken place.  All this post-autopsy fantasizing by the
>anti-abortion forces only occurs because of how embarrassed they
>are by the fact that their agenda has  now killed a young woman.

Make that "the lie that their agenda..." and you are much closer
to the truth.

>I suppose she's an acceptable casualty to some.  I refer to
>the some who spare no opportunity to paint the dead girl as
>a junkie slut.  They probably think she deserved it.

I do not know who you are referring to, unless it is her father,
who put her through a long detoxification program and told her,
"I don't want to go through this again."

And who, according to Heather Clark, told his daughter that if
she ever messed up again, he'd throw her out of the house.

Guess whose side the father is on now?  Not the pro-life side.

Peter Nyikos


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