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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Life Expectancy
Message-ID: <1559@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 17:30:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 17:30:19 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>So "nature" (before modern medicine) did not gift women with longer
>lives.  It took modern medical advances and women deciding to control 
>their own bodies.  
>
>Ariel (historical perspective helps) Shattan

I doubt that modern medical advances explain much of the greater mortality
of male embryos as compared to female, and I doubt that the female
embryo has absorbed enough feminist politics to perform the politically
proper control of her own body.
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Martin Taylor
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