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To: Jim Robinson
Rudy has NEVER operated on a woman/women.

An abortionist is someone who has done abortions.

Your argument is illogical and spurious; not to mention slanderous, irrational, and 100% false.

1,510 posted on 02/28/2007 7:49:03 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
I have seen several people use only the first definition of the word abortionist to tarnish a statement with that word in it.

More than one person has accused Jim of saying that they perform abortions just because one of Rudy's positions was revealed. And of saying that Giuliani performs abortions. Kind of absurd IMO.

Some have wasted several posts on their myopic impression of the definition of the "word."

You even state "Your argument is illogical and spurious; not to mention slanderous, irrational, and 100% false."

Well, Random House doesn't agree with you on that.

From the dictionary:

a·bor·tion·ist

–noun
1. a person who performs or induces abortions, esp. illegally.
2. a person who favors or advocates abortion as a right or choice that all women should have: usually intended as an offensive term.

[Origin: 1870–75, Americanism; abortion + -ist]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Some of the people that "misunderstood" Jim's use of the word are smart enough to have known what he meant, but just wanted to argue. I wasn't sure of the different uses of the word, so I looked it up. If others (and you) had, I think the message would have been clear.
1,589 posted on 02/28/2007 8:58:30 PM PST by Syncro
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