# ## #I remain pro-choice, but when pro-choicers compare abortion in a
# ## #clinic to a religious ritual in a church, you have to start wondering
# ## #a bit if the pro-life criticism of abortion as modern human sacrifice
# ## #doesn't have a grain of truth to it.
# 
# ## 
# ## Ah, Clayton, so I see that you have found someone new to bash.  Tell
# ## me, how many pro-choicers have compared abortion in a clinic to a
# ## religious ritual in a church?  I'll bet that you've seen "overwhelming
# ## support" for this opinion in some newsgroup or another.
# 
# #No, but I've seen the comparison drawn by pro-choicers in ca.politics.
# #It is worrisome to me.  But not to you?
# 
# 1. I've been reading ca.politics for a while now, and I don't recall
#    seeing such a comparison.

You don't read *my* postings very carefully; I'm not surprised.  It
was pretty shocking, and is part of why my sympathy (though not
agreement) with the pro-lifers is increasing.

# 2. A handful of lunatic opinions expressed in ca.politics does not
#    make me think that the opinion is widely held.

When did I say that it was?

# Clayton, I wish I knew what made you tick.  Your math sucks, and you
# take single instances of fringe opinions and proclaim the existence of
# a pernicious trend.  There's about a quarter billion people living in
# this country -- some small number of them are almost guaranteed to
# hold opinions that you (and I) find positively repellent.  As long as
# the small number is truly a small number, and as long as they're not
# my neighbor (highly likely), I'm not worried about it.

When they hold high public office, you should worry.

# By the way, when you cite experts, remember that Carl Sagan and Paul
# Ehrlich [sp?] are experts, too.  If I've never heard of your experts,
# I'll consider the source (you, a man who is clearly unable to master
# elementary statistics and uses of statistical inference) and ignore
# them.
# 
# David Chase

You mean, I don't come to the conclusions that your emotional
state requires.


