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