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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (63329)	11/17/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You're talking about Fox news right? If it is the news, can you give me an example where you feel news has been presented recently that was primarily aimed at pushing an agenda (i.e. presenting propaganda)? Because I would assume the news would never present this story in this way... they might talk about the procedure if it is really that newsworthy (I doubt it is, vs. other medical leaps going on today). Oprah, Dateline etc. is another matter. And again it depends on how they present it... my argument is that they bring up abortion at all. If Oprah talks about it and refers to the fetus as a "baby" then I would say she has an agenda, which is her perogative as only an entertainer. I know dateline covered the Berkeley student who was jailed excessively in Ohio where the judge deliberately let her legal window for an abortion to expire... therefore she was forced to give birth, so Dateline will show stuff like that (in this case it was a liberal bias).

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (63329)	11/17/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

A fetus is human, a fetus is a life in being, and even amoeba feel "pain"- but just because something is a human being that feels pain doesn't mean you can't kill it. The LAW tells us whom we may or may not kill- it is going to be arbitrary unless you want to make some blanket provision against ever killing anybody.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (63329)	11/17/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

I thought what former Senator Allen Simpson had to say about partial birth abortion on Hardball last month was very good. He said, he discussed the topic with women who had had them, and with their physicians, and decided that the decision to have one was a medical decision, and not a political decision. I agree. Whatever you think about abortion, it's clear that partial birth abortions are being performed for medical reasons, not as belated birth control. Even if some physicians did perform partial birth abortions as belated birth control, which I doubt, the fact that the procedure is medically necessary in most cases is enough for me to say that no politician could ever write an intelligent law in advance, that dealt adequately with every medical necessity.