Maybe she really did say it. But the fact that the quote was reproduced in
several other news sources is not very good evidence that she was _not_
misquoted. These outfits borrow each others' sources, I think. The fact that
they use the very same wording is evidence that they did not independently
check with Ms. Rarus to get the quotation. I don't know Rarus, and I have no
reason to defend her, but if she was misquoted once it's quite possible that
the misquote was perpetrated by other news organizations.
Ron
Ron Amundson
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, HI 96720
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> Ps - I didn't find a retraction or disclaimer in any of them!
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> I wondered about that too Karen so I did a web search for Nancy
> Rarus. If she is misquoted as saying "I can't understand why
> anybody would want to bring a disabled child into the world."
> then she's miss - quoted in an awful lot of articles! I've pasted
> the links to 5 of the 19 articles the quote appears in.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1916462.stm
> www.ananova.com/news/story/ sm_562170.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
> www.atforumz.com/archive/index.php/t-125495.html -
> archives.tcm.ie/sligoweekender/2002/04/12/story6223.asp
> www.guardian.co.uk/international/ story/0,3604,680616,00.html
> Lynn
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