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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.165609.7444@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Nov17.004440.19764@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov17.055146.5262@netcom.com> <1eb8irINNil4@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:56:09 GMT
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- In article <1eb8irINNil4@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >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.
-
- But you don't know that for sure. And *if* it is in fact a problem, then by
- the time action is taken, many lives could be needlessly lost.
-
- If it's not happening, then why does it hurt to legislate against it?
- Doesn't this sword cut _both_ ways?
-
- - Kevin
-