From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
Subject: Re: THE RAPE/INCEST MYTH.
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In article <64100@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.020327.7297@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
>>In article <64007@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
>>
>>Welcome back to talk.abortion, Richard!  Did you bring your handcuffs and that
>>shows that guy in the sling getting "stripped" that I like?
>
>Thanks for noticing I wasn't around very often.  [Actually, it seems you
>may have me confused with someone else, for I don't know to what you 
>are referring in your second sentence. :-)]

That's ok.  They never understood me at home, either.  (Although the second
sentence should read "...the video that shows that guy in the sling..."
>
>>>In article <22dml=#.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
>>>>...
>>>4000 abortions/day - 1,500,000 abortions/year - these are approximations,
>>>but pretty good ones, correct?
>>
>>No, but that's never stopped you before.  Tell me something.  Is it difficult
>>to breath through your duodenum?
>
>WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE NUMBERS?

They're inaccurate.  Based on your "approximations", I can say that a year is
360 days long, and that a human's body tempeture is 100 degrees.
>
>Thanks for your concern about my duodenum?

Do you even know what it is?
>
>>>Let's say that 1% of abortions are third trimester ones.
>>
>>Wrong again.  But, let's continue on...
>
>PICK YOUR OWN PERCENTAGE.  I've seen numbers like this before on
>t.o and they were not contested - I think the number was 0.5% or
>so, but that's on the same order of magnitude, which is similar to 
>saying that numbers around 1 (say the set [0,2]) could be considered 
>in the same order of magnitude, whereas, the number 10 is 
>not of the same order.

Well, 1% is _not_ on the same order of magnatitude as .5%....
>
>>>1% of 1,500,000 is about 15,000 per year or 40 per day.
>>
>>At least you can do 5th grade math...
>
>1% of a number is achieved by dividing by 100 or multiplying by 0.01.
>This is the same as moving the decimal point two places to the left.
>
>Try it out - by the way this concept holds throughout college.

Sigh... You just don't get it, do you?
>
>0.5% would reduce the above calculated third trimester numbers to
>7,500/year and 20/day.

Which is still wrong.  So far you're batting 0.000%
>
>>>Are these ok numbers?
>>
>>Well, they're completly wrong, but if they're "just numbers", I suppose they're
>>ok.  I mean, you've got an awful lot of "0"'s there, and you seem to have
>>forgotten completly about the lovely curves in the number "8"...
>
>I missed this point, unless your whole reply was in a sarcastic sense, which
>I don't think it was, but I'm a little slow in this area.

It was.
>
>>Ok.  According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, less than 100 abortions are
>>performed PER YEAR after the 24th week of pregnancy.  These are done for 
>>life threatening reasons to the mother or because of severe deformities in 
>>the developing fetus.  There are only 3 or 4 doctors in the entire US who
>>perform third trimester abortions.
>
>I have not seen this in print anywhere - are these new statistics?

The Alan Guttmacher Institute released them in 1991, and they've been bandied
about talk.abortion ever since then.
>As stated above I've seen numbers from 0.5% to 1%.

And your numbers are wrong, according to the statistics released by the Alan
Guttmacher Institute in 1991.

[Religious stuff deleted:  Actually, I've seen a dictionary copyright 1966,
which does state that Fear=Reverence for a supreme being.  I wonder if the
new ones (copyright 1990+) say the same thing...]
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