[Paleopsych] fundamentalism

[Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D.]

Michael, this is a questionable report. I just did a Yahoo News search 
for the terms:
Tom Coburn Oklahoma abortion capital punishment

No returns. I did find several pieces on Coburn as an abortion opponent, 
but Michael, the man is a physician, and it seems unlikely he would say 
such a thing. I think you may have been suckered.

Please cite a source. Failing that, I think you should retract.

BTW, Steve, hate speech calling for preemptive murder based on 
presumptive political beliefs makes me proud I don't share your 
'liberal' ideology. Seems rather fundamentalist to me.

Lynn

Steve Hovland wrote:

>Abort a Conservative
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Michael Christopher [SMTP:anonymous_animus at yahoo.com]
>Sent:	Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:14 PM
>To:	paleopsych at paleopsych.org
>Subject:	[Paleopsych] fundamentalism
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>>>Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has
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>called not just for outlawing abortion but for the
>death penalty for doctors who break such a law.<<
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>--What they don't seem to realize with the "abortion
>equals murder" argument is that the woman would have
>to be treated identically to someone who hires an
>assassin. I don't know if people who hire hitmen get
>the death penalty, or in what states, but that's where
>the logic goes. And once a group accepts an axiom and
>believes it is heresy to turn back, the group is
>capable of taking logic to extremes. Most Americans
>would not, if asked, support the death penalty for
>women who have abortions. But starting with the axiom
>"abortion is child-murder", how do you turn back from
>the logical consequences? This is how fundamentalist
>bullies work, they induce a group to accept an axiom,
>and then push it, step by step, to the logical
>extreme, which tends to violate all human sense of
>feeling and context.
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>Michael
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