From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
Subject: Re: There's every reason to vote for Bush
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In article <nyikos.714667647@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>In <1992Aug21.014644.6144@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> smccabe@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Sarah A McCabe) writes:
>>In article <nyikos.714081139@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>>>Which tissue and organs does a pregnant woman donate to her offspring?
>>>Hell, she does not even donate blood corpuscles.  Plasma, yes.
>
>>Would you be happier if he said "donate the USE of tissue, blood, and/or
>>organs for up to 9 months to save their lives"?  
>
>
>Only marginally.  We are not, by the wildest stretch of the imagination,
>speaking of exclusive use.  We are talking about the kind of use involved
>in plasma donation: indirect, and not a great drain on these things if
>enough nourishment and vitamin and mineral supplements are taken.  "Jammer
>Jim" Miller has provided quite a bit of data on this.
>
>Last month I asked networkers to imagine the following scenario, now 
>updated by saying "plasma" instead of "blood", and with some
>new details added:  
>
>A VERY close relative,
>as close as mother to offspring, has a very rare bodily constitution
>which for some reason makes it impossible for anyone in the world except
>you to donate even plasma.  Said relative also has a strange condition
>which makes periodic plasma donations necessary for 9 months, otherwise
>death is inevitable; but if donations are made, then after 9 months this
>relative will recover and never again need these donations from you.

As opposed to 18 years of support from a child, plus the pain and problems
associated with childbirth, pregnancy, etc.

(And before you start bitching, my sister has to have a hysterectomy, due
in large part because she has _had_ children.  Not that she had terrible
pregnancies, or anything.  Just because she was pregnant.)

>
>Now, even though the donation of plasma involves the use, if you want
>to put it that way, of tissues, organs, etc.  I think you should be 
>morally obligated to make these donations.  

Unless, of course, you're a woman.  Then you should be *LEGALLY FORCED* to
do it.

When will they ever learn?
>
>I do not advocate that you
>be punished if you refuse [as indeed, no woman has ever been legally
>punished for procuring an abortion done on her], but I do think that
>anyone who smashes the special plasma-donating equipment [which for
>some reason is irreplaceable] should be prosecuted, even if you ask
>him to do it, and I think you should thank the judge for being merciful
>enough not to prosecute you despite your having actually *paid* the 
>creep who destroyed the equipment.

What if *YOU'RE* the one who smashed the equipment?
>
>'Nuff said?

Far too much.  And it's all the same shit-for-brains drivel that we've seen
endless times here in t.a.  People screaming "I'M RIGHT, DAMMIT!" when they're
wrong, wrong, wrong.
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