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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 09:02:19 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- References: <1992Nov16.174419.21294@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov17.004440.19764@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov17.055146.5262@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.055146.5262@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >smgarvin@nyx.cs.du.edu (susan garvin) writes ...
- >> If someone who lived in an isolated
- >>area took this action today, believing it to be safer than
- >>performing major surgery undernon-sterile condition, I wouldn't want
- >>that person to be prosecuted for manslaughter. I wonder
- >>if Fischer would.
- >Of course not. But to argue that the life of a born -10 minutes
- >fetus is less important than the life of a cat is equally absurd.
- >Isn't there some way of protecting viable fetuses while ensuring the
- >right of a woman to end the pregnancy?
-
-
- Ray,
-
- Is it a problem? Is it happening with any regularity today?
-
- Do we *need* to "protect" these fetuses? Are they in danger right now?
-
- No.
-
- What's happening today is that women who want to end a pregnancy do so as
- soon as they possibly can. And the late-term abortions that happen are
- almost universally performed because of major threat to the mother, or
- gross fetal abnormality.
-
- Don't get so lost in the argument that you lose sight of reality.
-
- I'm one of the few who think abortion should be legal up to the moment
- the umbilical cord is cut, and not even *I* am pushing for legislation to
- reflect that belief. Because it's *not* a real-life problem.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-