To: TimF who wrote (17139 ) 6/19/2001 10:05:41 PM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Your claim was just as you restate "the religious opposition was not reduceing abortions, but only endagering mothers". I replied that The statistics show no such thing and they don't. They don't show that that religious opposition did not reduce abortions. I claimed that the stats do not show both A - religious opposition does not reduce abortions, and B - That it just endangers women. Then you assert that I said C "that illegal abortions present no danger to women." can ignore A in the context of C, and you quite rightly ought to. People do generally include the whole quote when they are trying politely to give meaningful information. Of course, there is absolutely no need for you, Tim, to try to fit C into A when A has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with C. You might, however, Tim, have considered acknowledging that your, "The statistics show no such thing." statement WAS referring to my statement--which you have correctly (and oh so diligently) divided into the separate components of A and B. You might have acknowledged, then, that you were referring to both A and B, and that therefore a fair re-statement of your response to me (leaving aside the needles repetition of A) would read somewhat like this: "THE STATISTICS DO NOT SHOW THAT RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION ENDANGERS MOTHERS."
