From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
Subject: Simple question == pulling teeth
Keywords: You expect me to mark my deletions?  Dream on...
Reply-To: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com
Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:44:26 GMT

#  -- sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
|| -- kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)

-----

|| It's a simple yes/no question.  Let me go over the facts again:
|| 
|| If Ann gets pregnant and tries to carry to term, she'll become a cripple.
|| 
|| She gets pregnant.
|| 
|| 
|| Now, between the '*' are my two questions.  The first one requires a yes/no
|| answer on your part.  The second one requires a paragraph or so.
|| 
|| ****************************************************************************
|| 
|| QUESTION #1)  Would you allow Ann to have an abortion?
|| 
|| QUESTION #2)  Why should she have to ask you?
|| 
|| ***************************************************************************

[I've moved Simon's answers to further down in the post.]

|| 
|| Now, please don't go off into "miracle cures" and such as that.  Please
|| don't start in on "she could just go into the hospital for 6 or 7 months";
|| they can't afford the hospital stay, and who is going to watch their other
|| two children?
|| 
|| Just answer the questions, Simon.

[Here are the answers Simon gave.]
#
# Why wouldf she need to ask me?? I'm not the govt.

Why should she have to ask the government?  Gawd, Simon -- are you
studying *law* at UTSA.EDU, or are you just a naturally pedantic git?

WHY SHOULD ANN HAVE TO GROVEL BEFORE THE AUTHORITIES IN THE CITADEL
FOR PERMISSION TO CONTROL HER OWN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM?????

{you don't have to grovel for permission to control yours, you know...}

# I thought I had answered the question.
# I said that all measures must be taken to ensure both the safety of the
# mother and the unborn child.  Now, if all other measures are exhausted,
# then mabye an abortion would have to be done.  As an absolute last resort.
# 
#                                                                       out
# explaining my answer.  But I guess to you all I won't answer correctly unless
# I come out pro-choice and I refuse to do that.  But I did answer your question,
# again.

A simple `yes' would have sufficed, Mr. Booth.  Is there a reason
other than that you are a misogynistic sex fascist that compelled you
to qualify your answer with six lines of sploogie that seems aimed
soley at eliminating any suspicion that you might condone abortion in
any but the most dire emergency?

You realize, of course, that your answer indicates that you expect Ann
in the hypothetical case Mr. Cochran outlined to wait until her
pregnancy progresses from a life-threatening situation to an
*IMMEDIATELY* life-threatening situation before she may be permitted
to abort, as if the threat of permanent paralysis isn't grave enough
until the threat becomes a certainty.

Then again, perhaps you *don't* realize this.  What do you think, Mr.
Booth?  Should I be giving you the benefit of the doubt on this?


-- 
J H Woodyatt (a.k.a. Dr. Strychnine)
Space Systems/Loral

``Men who have no time to read should devote their time to reading
books of quotations.''
                                              -- Winston Churchill
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