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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The Status of the Fetus and Its Rights
Message-ID: <219@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:58:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.219
Posted: Sun Sep 15 23:58:09 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 02:48:38 EDT
References: <429@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> <1546@pyuxd.UUCP> <998@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1597@pyuxd.UUCP> <1095@brl-tgr.ARPA> <214@3comvax.UUCP>
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[Eat away!  You can't scare me, you Line Eater Monst...]

I wanted to advertise my recently submitted article, for those
of you who may have inadvertently or advertently skipped by it.  

>   I almost didn't read your posting when I saw the 600+ line length,
>however, I am very glad I did. I thought your posting one of the best
>reasoned and most reasonable I have seen in a long time. (All this
>means, of course, is that my line of thought closely parallels yours
>and makes us both wonderful :-)
>
>  Anyway, I thank you for the time and effort that went into your
>posting.
>
>             unixcorn  (alias m. gould)

The article in question is actually 448 some odd lines in length.  
Yes, that *is* long, and many may have skipped it for that reason.  
However, shortness is not necessarily a virtue (just look at many
of the shorter articles submitted in this newsgroup for examples).  

One person flamed me without even having *read* the article.  
Please -- read it *then* flame me!  The article hangs together as
a unitary line of reasoning.  In addition, to fully establish my
conclusion, I felt it necessary to carefully discuss all the major
arguments, pro and con, which are extant in the abortion debate.  

If the article <214@3comvax.UUCP> has scrolled off your news
system by the time any of you read this, just send me mail and
I'll happily forward it to you.  Thanks for your consideration!  

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