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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.093407.25205@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <1992Nov19.192808.662@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov20.152958.6298@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov21.080116.4429@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 09:34:07 CST
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- In article <1992Nov21.080116.4429@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
-
- >However, I think a law (in current practice through definitions rather
- >than being passed as a law, I believe) saying "Any z/e/f delivered
- >alive whether by choice or by a botched abortion is a person; killing
- >him/her is murder and allowing him/her to die is manslaughter by
- >neglience" does not damage a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.
- >(Of course, it doesn't protect *fetuses* either....)
-
- Elizabeth, parents are currently allowed to refuse
- treatment for a preemie whose chances are not that
- good. If someone you loved gave birth to a child
- whose neonatal care would cost over a million dollars,
- and the child would have less than a 5% chance of survival,
- and almost infintesimal chances of surviving without
- severe handicaps, and the months of treatment required
- would be invasive and painful, would you deny those folk
- the right to say, "Back off and let me hold him while he
- lasts"? Think about it.
-
- muriel
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