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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- References: <BzEy8s.7x8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <nyikos.724976453@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Dec23.065254.17977@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec25.034713.4354@rotag.mi.org>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:03:09 GMT
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- kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec23.065254.17977@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>
- >>
- >>Can you produce any evidence that anybody is performing post-26 week
- >>terminations and *not* attempting to salvage the fetus? So far, you've
- >>completly failed to do this.
-
- >Okay, Mark, if a 28-week pregnant woman asked for a D&E abortion, and there
- >were NO unusual medical conditions diagnosed, do you think, from the viewpoint
- >of medical ethics, she should be allowed to get her D&E? After that, please
- >answer the same question from your own personal moral viewpoint. If the two
- >answers differ, will you finally admit that the pseudo-proposal to "handle
- >abortion as strictly a medical matter" is naive and unworkable, since medical
- >ethics alone can't address the vast tapestry of legal/historical/sociological/
- >economic factors that legislation can?
-
- Hmmm? "medical ethics" must be handled on a case-by-case basis since it deals
- with decisions in individual cases. In better words, whether it is medically
- ethical to perform an abortion for a particular case *can* depend on the "vast
- tapestry" of legal/sociological/economic factors. On the other hand,
- legislation inherently ignores the details of the individual case and tries to
- assign a partition of right and wrong based on a few details that were forseen
- at the time the laws were writen. In other words, whether it is legal to
- perform an abortion for a particular case does *not* depend on the entire "vast
- tapestry" of legal/sociological/economic factors.
-
- Please explain how your interpretation of the addressibility (?) of ethics and
- legislation is better or more valid than mine.
-
- > - Kevin
-
- -Rob
-