On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:57:04 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:
"Joe Parsons" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:59:04 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:
My 88 year old mother, RN for about 65 years, says it is murder.
This is a good example of a logical fallacy called "argumentum ad
verecundiam,"
or "appeal to authority."
The argument about abortion is far more a "moral" issue than it is a
medical
one. Therefore, the fact that your 88 year old mother is an RN has no
probative
or persuasive value in the argument.
If you wanted to make an argument like that, you'd have done better to
say, "My
88 year old mother, a federal prosecutor for about 65 years, says it is
murder."
Did you pick up that burgundy paint for my Four Winns? 
Joe Parsons
If you
waited 45 seconds and 14" that baby would be in the doctors arms. Then
is
it OK to poke it in the head and suck out it's brains? And this is a
lady
who supports abortions.
Bill
"jps" wrote in message
...
"Dave Hall" wrote in message
...
If you dislike and distrust government so much, then why do you
support
a political ideology which relies on greater governmental control and
involvement?
The Patrioit Act?
Partial Birth Abortion? (even my 79 yr. old reasonably conservative
mother
says that's an invasion of women's bodies)
Government headcount growing at a faster pace than ever in history?
Bigger Gov't deficits than any other time in history?
Are you assuming I'm a Republican Dave?
Picked up the Burgundy paint for my Jetcraft at San Leandro Color off Dutton
and E. 14th. $16 and they put it in a spray can for me. I listen to my
mom, don't you.
When she was alive, I *always* listened to my mother--especially when she taught
me that I should make up my own mind.
I go along with her opinion.
So it would appear--and that's fine; but the *only* point I want to make about
what you said is that the fact that your mother is 88 years old and a nurse has
no probative or persuasive value with respect to this highly charged issue.
Joe Parsons
She has delivered babies. Fi
rst one in first year nurses training to an epileptic mother. She almost
gave up nursing then. Her opinion is it is a viable baby at that the time
that labor is going on and 8+ months into pregnancy. My Godson was 2# and
7.5 months at birth. 30 now and going to be a dad himself in May. If it is
the mom's life that is in danger, why not do a C section or the fact that
the baby continues it birth trip after being stabbed in the head, negates
fact that the mom dies if the baby is born. The Federal prosecutor would
now say it is murder.