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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 15:50:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 15:50:24 1985
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In article <380@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>
>Not so long ago, a women somewhere in England used PMS as a defense
>for her murdering of a man.  She used it as a "temporary insanity"
>plea.
>
>I know that the National Org. of Women thought it was horrendous just 
>for the reason that a person like myself would bring it up.  Okay. 
>I brought it up.  Here is a case where *some* woman thought that her own 
>PMS was not a factor of "minor significance".
>
>Now, the women in England could have been anything from a prostitute
>to the PM --- it really is of no matter.  Consider that this 
>women was [probably] living an ordinary, regular life, probably successful
>in whatever her endeavors were when suddenly -- BANG! --- she
>murders someone due to (her claim) some pretty nasty PMS.
>
>So, once again, I ask: is PMS relevant?  I would consider PMS
>like the above to be something to consider.

I support NOW's position fully.  I don't think that PMS should be relevant,
and I doubt that PMS can cause someone to murder someone else.  I think the
whole case was a piece of crock and the murderess, just that, a murderess
who decided to capitalise on the current trend back to "biology is destiny".
I haven't heard of any bad cases of PMS that appear without any warning
symptoms.  Has anybody else?
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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