XPost: talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime   
   XPost: talk.philosophy.humanism   
   From: gowch@SPAMTHEENOThotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:06:14 -0800, "David V."    
   wrote:   
      
   ==>>> 1.3 million abortions were performed in the USA in the   
   ==>>> year 2000.   
      
   IG:   
   ==>> Still, a drop in the bucket compared to the number of   
   ==>> women who use some form of birth control, as I said.   
      
   ==>That is not as you said. Since it seems you have no   
   ==>intention of entering into an honest debate, I shall not   
   ==>attempt one with you.   
      
   		What are you talking about?  I said   
      
   ==>>=>The fact is that that, in North America, anyway,   
   ==>>=>tens of millions of women use birth control, while the   
   ==>>=>abortions in any year number in the mere thousands, or   
   ==>>=>perhaps tens of thousands.   
      
   ==>>=>This does not lend itself to the conclusion that   
   ==>>=>"many" women use abortion as as "alternative   
   ==>>=>form of birth control."   
      
   		I may have underestimated the actual number   
   		of abortions, but the statistics bear out what   
   		I said, namely, that the number of abortions   
   		is small, compared with the number of women   
   		who use birth control.   
      
   		And certainly none of those figures supports the   
   		original poster's contention that many -- or even any   
   		-- women use abortion as a form of birth control.   
      
      
      
   --   
   Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   than the birth of one more unwanted child.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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