<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>This is a constructive dilemma: if A then C; if B then C; A or B; so C<br><br><br></div><div><br>On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Your concern about women aborting babies based on sexual orientation, race, and / or gender sets up a false dilemma. Pro-choicers tend not to discriminate against people based on those listed traits and thus are much less likely to abort due to them. Pro-lifers who tend to more conservative and are more likely to discriminate in society based on gay, race, gender, religion, etc. will not abort for any reason. <br><br>And my point that is backed by statistical fact is that women who are self-described 'pro-life', and thus are against abortions for themselves and others, are roughly 9 times less likely to be faced themselves with the decision of choosing (even though they believe that they should have no choice in the matter) to carry a Down's Syndrome pregnancy to full term. If women have a 9x factor less of having a Down's pregnancy by being self-described 'pro-life', then it gives pause for thought.<br><br>-Scott<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:11:35 -0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The one argument I can make in favor of being 'pro-life'<br>To: <a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="right:auto"><span style="right:auto">Sounds like genocide of people with <span id="ecxmisspell-0" class="mark">Down's</span> Syndrome. How sad. I use to help a young woman with <span id="ecxmisspell-1" class="mark">Down's</span> live independently. She was a sweet kind angel with not a evil cell in her. How people can destroy such angels from heaven is beyond me. I worry they abort babies they think will be gay, or because of their race, or gender. </span></div>
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<div style="right:auto"><span style="right:auto">As to your theory, Scott. I think that a pro-life woman is more like to have a baby with <span id="ecxmisspell-2" class="mark">Down's</span> because a pro-choice woman would be far more likely to abort it. Older women are also statistically more likely to have a baby with <span id="ecxmisspell-3" class="mark">Down's</span> and older women are statistically more likely to be pro-life as well. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">I loved the stats Dale posted on his site. For instance, he had polling data that showed with some kooky accounting that 'The majority of Americans are pro-life'. Shortly thereafter, he had a post titled 'Search and Destroy' which showed that 92% of <span id="ecxmisspell-4" class="mark">Down's</span> Syndrome pregnancies are aborted. So let's say that both of these statistics are roughly accurate, but for crunching numbers more quickly let's say:<br>
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<li>50% of American women are pro-life and the other 50% are pro-choice<br></li>
<li>90% of <span id="ecxmisspell-5" class="mark">Down's</span> Syndrome pregnancies are aborted (assume all these abortions are by self described 'pro-choice' women)</li>
<li>10% of <span id="ecxmisspell-6" class="mark">Down's</span> Syndrome pregnancies are carried to term (assume all these births are by hard core pro-life women who are also NOT pro-choice for other women)<br></li></ul><br><br>Clearly these numbers show that that by being 'pro-life', a woman SIGNIFICANTLY reduces her risk of having a <span id="ecxmisspell-7" class="mark">Down's</span> Syndrome pregnancy. I welcome any / all comments to blow holes in my theory.<br><br><br><br>-Scott<br><br></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>serving the communities of the <span id="ecxmisspell-8" class="mark">Palouse</span> since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net/</a><br> <span id="ecxmisspell-9" class="mark">mailto</span>:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br></div></div></div></div> </div>
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