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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4373)	2/2/2001 12:33:18 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

As for the safety of RU486, it is much safer than pregnancy and child birth. (Bland's solicitousness in regard to the wellbeing of pregnant women is commendable, though.) The Population Council and the FDA have determined the drug to be highly safe and effective (NEJM 1998). FDA approved for "safe and effective" in 1996. I'm sure bland knows that not only childbirth, but even celibacy, has a health risk -- women who do not nurse babies have an increased risk of breast cancer. <<<Bland does believe a fertilized egg is essentially a child. As long as it retains the potential to become a human being, yes.>>> "Essentially" is the trick. Your definition of "essentially" is that a blueprint is "essentially" a house, a loom and a cotton boll are "essentially" a bolt of cloth, a sunnyside up egg is "essentially" a chicken dinner. Bland, a significant percentage of fertilized ova abort spontaneously. [Does someone have that stat?] Is each of these entirely natural occurrences God killing a little baby? Okay, leave God out. Has each of these billions of natural biological occurrences been the death of a "child"?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4373)	2/2/2001 7:56:32 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Abortion has literally played no role in his personal life whatever. No one in his immediate or extended family has ever had an abortion, to his knowledge, nor have any of the women he has been seriously involved with or married to in the past. Perhaps bland should be embarrassed to admit that, but it is the simple truth. Bland, your "to his knowledge" in the above paragraph is everything. You really have no idea whether women you have been involved in have had abortions or not. I think women tell those who will support them in their decision and understand it. What woman would tell a man in her family, or among her friends, whom she knew to think an embryo more important than her and her life? You have no idea whether abortion has played a role in your personal life or not, and this will ever be the case, I suspect.