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- From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.220057.8270@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:00:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.174419.21294@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov17.004440.19764@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1ebb5tINN3cm@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
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- In article <1ebb5tINN3cm@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.004440.19764@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- >smgarvin@nyx.cs.du.edu (susan garvin) writes:
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- >>Before invasive surgery became
- >>commonplace, before antibiotics and sterile technique,
- >>when C sections were very rare because they were very
- >>dangerous, this was not just a rhetorical question. A
- >>fetus whose head was too large to pass through the
- >>vagina represented a very real threat to the life of
- >>the woman. The medically indicated procedure was to behead
- >>the fetus and save the woman's life. Some doctors refused
- >>to do it, based on their belief that the fetus was more
- >>valuable than the woman. 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.
-
- >I think to call a mature baby in the birth canal a foetus is stretching the
- >term. This is a baby being born. It is certainly offensive to say that the
- >baby is more important than the woman - but is it any less offensive to say
- >the woman is more important than the baby? I, for one, am prepared to say
- >that they are equally important.
-
- Do you really think so?
-
- I, for one, have a gut reaction against any doctor who would *not*
- sacrifice a baby being born for the mother.
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
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- Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
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