[net.abortion] Abortion causing child abuse...

lydgate@reed.UUCP (Chris Lydgate) (03/27/85)

Skimming through mountains of verbiage, 
I stumbled upon this little gem:

>>Since abortion was made legal, child abuse in this country has more
>>than doubled - is this respect for life?

>> Matt Noah


   I hope that you're not suggesting that legalizing abortion in any way
*caused* the rising rate of child abuse; that's analogous to claiming
that the electiton of Reagan in 1980 caused a huge increase in the
rate of purchase of home computers-  I mean, it may just possibly be
true, but you can't realistically assert such a causal link without
reams and reams of specific data, and a valid hypothesis: none of
which I see in your article.
-- 
				chris lydgate
				c/o the information vortex
				!tektronix!reed!lydgate


-- 
				chris lydgate
				c/o the information vortex
				!tektronix!reed!lydgate

lydgate@reed.UUCP (Chris Lydgate) (03/27/85)

Article 674 of net.abortion:

Skimming through mountains of verbiage, 
I stumbled upon this little gem:

>>Since abortion was made legal, child abuse in this country has more
>>than doubled - is this respect for life?

>> Matt Noah


   I hope that you're not suggesting that legalizing abortion in any way
*caused* the rising rate of child abuse; that's analogous to claiming
that the electiton of Reagan in 1980 caused the huge increase in the
rate of purchase of home computers-  I mean, it may just possibly be
true, but you can't realistically assert such a causal link without
reams and reams of specific data, and a valid hypothesis: none of
which I see in your article.
-- 
				chris lydgate
				c/o the information vortex
				!tektronix!reed!lydgate