Re: Medicine is useless

On 20 Nov 2003 15:57:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman
Rubin) wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>DWood78828 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Subject: Re: Medicine is useless
>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Herman Rubin)
>
>>>I do not see how it is not responsive.  Contraceptive measures
>>>have been easily available for the whole period; they are not
>>>used by most peasant women until they have had lots of children.
>
>>Herman, have you ever examined the reasons that certain groups of women do not
>>use contraceptives?  Among the reasons, are religious views, spousal
>>opposition, economic, infant and toddler mortality.
>
>
>>They donot keep having them for the fun of it, despite what you think.
>
>
>I never claimed that.  But those who attempt to use the
>arguments usually used to claim that mere education or
>availability or a combination of the two are sufficient
>to get women not to have children are just wishing.
>
>The same thing holds when one makes anything available;
>people will use it as it suits THEM.  To get responsible
>behavior requires that the competitive forces act in the
>right manners, not in having government handouts.

Typical egghead elitist BS..  I wonder what your claims would be if
males were the ones becoming pregnant?\

pixie