From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Clarifying "Restrictions"
Summary: The irony is indeed priceless.
Date: 26 Dec 92 01:34:58 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Not now, it's recess.

In article <1992Dec19.081855.14741@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.165413.8758@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
>>
>>Kebbin is just mad because we live in the Real World (tm) and not in
>>some Darcian fantasy in which it is more dangerous to terminate a
>>pregnancy then to carry the fetus to term. 
>
>Learn the difference between a hypothetical question and a fantasy, ignoramus.

Talk about your basic irony -- you're telling someone else to learn the
difference?  Might I suggest you start with yourself, before you presume to
tell anyone else what the difference is?

>>Considering his tendancy to
>>argue both sides of any given question, I'd say he is the one who
>>needs to be concerned with moral inconsistancy.
>
>Arguing a position and believing it aren't necessarily the same thing, schmuck.

Sure, kebbin.  I bet Karl Marx was really an aristocrat, too.

>>I'm still waiting for your real life example to validate your question
>>Kebbin...
>
>Can you guarantee me that there is no possible or foreseeable combination of 
>medical factors which could make termination of pregnancy more dangerous
>than carrying to term? Are you willing to put whatever medical credentials
>you possess on the line over this question? I _do_ have some contacts at
>the UofM Medical Center (largest medical complex in the world, perhaps 
>you've heard of it?), which is a couple of miles down the road from me.
>I _can_ check this out, if necessary, and if you've been propagating bogus
>medical information on the Net... well... 

Well, what?  If you're going to threaten someone, Darcy, you might as well
(for once in your life) be honest about it and say so.  One thing, though --
I hope your "contacts" at UMMC aren't the ones feeding you the line about it
being the largest medical complex in the world.  Obviously, they never heard
of a little thing called the Texas Medical Center, which just happens to be
right across the street from where I work -- seven hospitals, the UT Medical
School, the Baylor College of Medicine, the Prairie View School of Nursing,
the UH College of Pharmacy, just off the top of my head.  My wife spent
eight days in one of those institutions -- Hermann Hospital -- back in
September, as you well know.  Does UM have a bit more than a square mile of
hospitals, schools, and research facilities in their medical center?

>>As has been said before. Analogies need to have some basis in reality.
>
>Incorrect. Analogies, to be valid, need only demonstrate the operative 
>principles in question, hopefully in a way that is clearer than in the 
>original issue at hand. They can, and often do, deal with hypothetical 
>situations, rather than so-called "real" ones.
>
>How long do you plan on evading the question, by the way?

How long do you plan on vaguely threatening anyone who questions your
"expertise" at anything?

--PLH, with a few contacts of his own at BCM and UTMDAH, who will no doubt
be amused to hear that all of a sudden they're no longer larger than UMMC...



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