Re: Curiouser and curiouser--was Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <fv76l7$5mg$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:

> In article <ddfr-0839F3.23183328042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >I recently made several posts in which I mentioned that only two of the

> >14-17 year old girls being held were pregnant, basing that on the CNN 
> >story. When I later went back to check the details, that detail was 
> >missing. I thought perhaps I had misread the story, and even put a 
> >correction? addition on my blog post.
> 
> As I understand it, you think 2 is too low a number given the
> number of girls who have had children.
> 
> Could 2 be the number of girls who are *obviously* pregnant, and if they
> forcibly tested each and every one they might get a higher number?

It's possible. On the other hand, an attorney for the FLDS was quoted in 
a newspaper as saying that one of the three who the CPS at that point 
were claiming were pregnant was so classified because she refused to 
take a pregnancy test. Assuming that isn't a complete invention--and of 
course it could be--it suggests that CPS is testing them. 

More generally, it's obvious that CPS wants to re****t as large a number 
as possible. In this case as in others, I'm more inclined to trust 
things people say when they are against their interest than when they 
are in their interest. And the fact that all of the stories are put in 
terms of the sum of those pregnant and those who have had children is, 
to my mind, strikingly suspicious.

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