Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:15 AM 1/16/03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea) John said: It seems clear that conception in human can occur

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: True. Frex, would I advocate killing (lethal injection, say) a comatose stroke victim who best medical judgement and experience calls essentially terminal? No. Would I advise withholding nutrition and drugs, except

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-16 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:04 PM 1/15/2003 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: irst the overwhelming majority of fetuses are spontaneoulsy aborted soon after conception. This is by and large a mechanism to spare the mother from wasting valuable energy on a fetus that has little or no chance of surviving. So what are we to

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-16 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:08:52 + John said: It seems clear that conception in human can occur both sexually and asexually. Thus, it would seem that the second soul would logically arrive

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-16 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/16/2003 8:27:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are we devote resources to saving these humans despite there poor chance of surviving? I think that you answered your own question. these abortions happen because the child cannot survive. But

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dan Minette wrote: Snipped what I percieved as a rather overdrawn and melodramatic respons on Deborah's position I believe the point Deborah was trying to make is that there is a lot more to abortion than playing on the sentiment nerve and calling it 'abusing/killing children'. I feel she made a

RE: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread J . v . Baardwijk
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: woensdag 15 januari 2003 5:38 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea) I'd like to believe that my heart is big enough to care about all of those children. Your

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/14/2003 5:37:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Deborah Harrell wrote in respons to JDG rethorics on how abortion kills 'children'. An interesting perspective on abortion is found in Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate (imho a terrific book in general;

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/14/2003 5:37:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Deborah Harrell wrote in respons to JDG rethorics on how abortion kills 'children'. An interesting perspective on abortion is found in Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate (imho a terrific book in general;

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Doug Pensinger
Dan Minette wrote: Indeed, what was surprising to even me was that income is a minimal factor in the response to abuse. I can refer to Economic Dependence and Battered Wives Returning to Their Abusers, a 1983 Master's Thesis by Teresa Summers-Minette. This thesis studied about 200 battered

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:55 PM Subject: Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea) But isn't economic stress a major factor in abuse? And wouldn't the poor be more susceptible to economic

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Kevin Tarr
But isn't economic stress a major factor in abuse? And wouldn't the poor be more susceptible to economic stress? Intuitively, one would think so. But, if it is a factor, it is hard to see. The number 1 controlling factor that I know of is that children that grow up in abusive homes tend

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:32 PM Subject: Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea) But isn't economic stress a major factor in abuse? And wouldn't the poor be more susceptible to economic

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote in respons to JDG rethorics on how abortion kills 'children'. snipped: The percieved evil of legal abortion put into perspective using information on the real evil of the current situation with respect to actual child abuse of real living breathing feeling children

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:04 AM Subject: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea) I didn't plan on writing on abortion. But, this post was so stident, I felt I had to. Not specks of potential

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Reggie Bautista
Debbi wrote: I have made plain my position that reducing the incidence of abortion (when not for medical reasons) is desirable; but it should be primarily by reducing ignorance (genuine or deliberate), poverty, substance abuse and cultural schizophrenia (Don't do 'It,' but be a sexy hottie who

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
I wrote: My view on child abusers has also been outlined previously, and is severe to the point of capital punishment... I should, of course, have noted that there is a range of abuse; the example I mentioned is on the severest end of punishment, but there are young/inexperienced

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't plan on writing on abortion. But, this post was so stident, I felt I had to. :( I didn't plan on writing about it either, but when an issue I see as dreadfully complex (and no happy ending) is repeatedly placed in purely Black and White

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 16:51, Deborah Harrell wrote: As I think I mentioned before, I have friends in the special education field who have had to get counseling and antidepressants to cope with the abused kids they see - and report, only to have the children repeatedly turned back to the abusers.

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
Deborah Harrell wrote: True. Frex, would I advocate killing (lethal injection, say) a comatose stroke victim who best medical judgement and experience calls essentially terminal? No. Would I advise withholding nutrition and drugs, except what seemed needful for comfort? Yes. If on a ventilator,

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 22:20, Steve Sloan II wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: True. Frex, would I advocate killing (lethal injection, say) a comatose stroke victim who best medical judgement and experience calls essentially terminal? No. Would I advise withholding nutrition and drugs, except

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 10:04 PM 1/13/2003 -0800 Deborah Harrell wrote: Beating, sodomizing and starving a first-grader is not within multiple orders of magnitude of aborting a 10-week fetus. I see that this issue is very near and dear to your heart. However, I don't believe that the presence of one problem

Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-13 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snippage Oh I see, the fact that George Bush has concluded that human life begins at conception, and happens to believe that all human life should enjoy equal protection under the laws, makes him, quote, unremarkable. snip