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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
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Subject: Re: "Traditional Values"
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 14:30:54 EDT
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Ray replies to Robert Plamondon:
> People were not perfect then just as they are not perfect now. 
>You have not proof of the degree to which child molesting and wife terrorizing
>took place in the past.  If you assume that it was just as bad back then as it
>is now but appeared not to be for lack of reporting it then on that premise we
> can make any asumption we want about the behavior patterns of a past age.
> For example we can assume that there were 2,000,000 abortions per year every
> year from as far back as you want to go, but due to lack of reporting it, we
> were unaware of the degree to which this activity took place.

There actually were a great many "unreported"  abortions  in  the  past.
Many  of  them took place under questionable conditions, often resulting
in infection and more serious complications.  If abortion  was  outlawed
again  we would almost certainly revert to the same situation, you would
not have to read  of  the  "2,000,000  abortions  per  year",  but  that
wouldn't  mean  they weren't happening, only that they weren't happening
under conditions of good medical practice.

I know that this was only brought up in passing, but  it  was  a  dig  I
couldn't let slide.


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