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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.075922.9133@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:59:22 GMT
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- dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes ...
- >rf>Isn't there some way of protecting viable fetuses while ensuring the
- >rf>right of a woman to end the pregnancy?
- >
- >The abortion question is a case of conflicting rights. The right of
- >the fetus versus the right of the woman. If you want to answer this
- >conflict with legislation, the legislation would have to give the
- >right to one side at the expense of the other. Ray asked if it was
- >possible to answer this conflict by ensuring both rights. This is
- >not possible when they are conflicting rights like this. I would
- >say there are non-legislative ways to do this. There are ways to
- >lesson the conflict by encouraging one side or the other to give
- >up some of their rights for the other. But legislation does not
- >have the ability to do this.
-
- You misread my question. Or misunderstood it. Let me restate it.
-
- Assume that for the moment a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy at
- any time is a given, wouldn't it be useful to provide some protection
- for the fetus? So that during the process of terminating a pregnancy
- it isn't needlessly killed.
-
- Presently an abortion may kill a fetus anytime without any consideration
- for the life of the fetus. While I will concede that this may not be
- a significant problem, given the low number of late-term abortions o
- presently performed, I propose that such a restriction may be useful
- more than it may be harmful. In particular, it would establish a
- clear value to the life of the fetus, and it could provide some measure
- of peace in the debate.
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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