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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (357044)	2/10/2003 4:38:05 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

If you check the imbedded grammer: I don't know anyone who thinks abortion or infanticide is a good thing Note that the 'or' is a conjunction creating a singular construct from two nouns. I just think that it should be legal." Note the singular pronoun. What I have here is a gramaticly ambiguious antecedent where I mention two possible subjects in the first sentence and then qualify one of them. Now I happen to know that I was qualifing the first subject, abortion, I happen to think it should be legal. As for infanticide, my position that the conclusion for legal abortions should be the time of birth makes it pretty clear that I have not advocated legalizing infanticide. Of course you would have had to glean that fact from a prior post since I did not repeat myself ad nauseum. Many native speakers of the language would have figured out the meaning from context but it is true that I did not specificly state which subject was being modified by the concluding sentence. Had I meant both procedures to be legal I would have used the plural pronoun they. TP