Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

Osprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"robpar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

>>   Most abortions are performed in the first 3 months.
>
>Objection #1: The Procedure is Very Rare.
>
>This was one of the first objections raised by Sam Donaldson on a recent
>broadcast of "This Week with David Brinkley."[1] He noted that only about
>450 partial-birth abortions are done each year. Only two doctors (Haskell
>and McMahon) did the procedure, he added, and one of them (McMahon) was now
>dead. This is the same information quoted in National Abortion Foundation
>materials.[2]
>
>Haskell and McMahon, however, are not the only doctors using this procedure.

One of them has since died.

>The New York Times, November 6, 1995, quoted a gynecologist at a New York

Gotta love those anonymous claims.

>Even if this objection was true, it hardly seems significant. George Will
>pointed out that two jumbo jets crashing would result in "only" 450
>casualties, but who would minimize such a disaster?

More children than that die of the flu every year.  By a long shot.

>Another rare occurrence might bring this objection into focus. Since the
>1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on demand, there have been
>five killings of abortion providers.

Seven.

> That's "only" one dead every four and a
>half years. That was enough, however, to stimulate a barrage of legislation.
>Why should partial-birth abortion be different?

"Woman?  What woman?"

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Ray Fischer         
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