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Michael, this is a questionable report. I just did a Yahoo News search
for the terms:<br>
<b>Tom Coburn Oklahoma abortion capital punishment<br>
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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. <br>
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Please cite a source. Failing that, I think you should retract. <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
Lynn<br>
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Steve Hovland wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Abort a Conservative
Save the World
Steve Hovland
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.stevehovland.net">www.stevehovland.net</a>
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From: Michael Christopher [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SMTP:anonymous_animus@yahoo.com">SMTP:anonymous_animus@yahoo.com</a>]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:14 PM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paleopsych@paleopsych.org">paleopsych@paleopsych.org</a>
Subject: [Paleopsych] fundamentalism
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<pre wrap="">Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has
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<pre wrap=""><!---->called not just for outlawing abortion but for the
death penalty for doctors who break such a law.<<
--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.
Michael
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