flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek) (08/22/84)
Ken Montgomery, quoting Laura Creighton: > Are males so radically different from females that understanding is > impossible? Are men and women so similar that men can get pregnant? Why would understanding justify coercion? The answer to your questions are counter-questions. To the first, Who cares? You haven't shown it is relevant. To the second, Would men's getting pregnant justify coercion in your view? No, so stop waving a red herring -- you yourself admit it is not relevant. I'm quite sure that the majority of--and let's call a spade a spade-- anti-abortionists are men. ken perlow ***** ***** Wrongo, pal! The majority of anti-abortionists are women. Source: Public Opinion Magazine (a non-partisan polling research report). I'll go find the date of the issue if you want. Another stupid argument runs into a fact, and sinks. Blup, blup blup! I love it when a plan comes together! --The aspiring iconoclast, Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink
ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) (08/24/84)
-- >> Wrongo, pal! The majority of anti-abortionists are women. Source: >> Public Opinion Magazine (a non-partisan polling research report). >> I'll go find the date of the issue if you want. Another stupid >> argument runs into a fact, and sinks. Blup, blup blup! >> I love it when a plan comes together! >> --The aspiring iconoclast, >> Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink Aspiring indeed--you've got a long way to go, though, since you can't see the difference between iconoclasm and name-calling. You get points for exuberance, though--there's so little of it these days. My contention that the majority of anti-abortionists were men was not meant as an argument on abortion, simply an observation about the arguers. My sample would appear to be biased, so I'd like to get that reference. Having done survey research and taught statistics, I will not concede its accuracy until I've read it, not that it would make any difference in the validity of either side. I suppose I could take Paul's word for it, though, since he clearly knows everything, if he does say so himself. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 23 Aug 84 [6 Fructidor An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***