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- From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
- Subject: Re: we are forcing women to destroy their babies!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.235006.21592@netcom.com>
- Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco
- References: <1993Jan3.222640.8528@fuug.fi>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:50:06 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- an3329@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >
- >Killing babies is wrong because they are human beings just like everyone
- >else.
-
- I agree completely.
-
- Even if you substitute 'fetuses' for 'babies', as I think you meant, I
- still agree. Taking any human life is wrong.
-
- However, sometimes it's the lesser of two wrongs. Just as I agree
- that a fetus has just as much of a right to life as an adult does, I
- feel that a fetus has as little right to use a woman's body against
- her will as an adult does.
-
- >They didn't do anything wrong and killing them says a lot about the
- >way we treat each other.
-
- They didn't do anything wrong, true. But just by existing they're
- causing problems -- because in order to exist they have to use a
- woman's body, so they're putting a woman's health at risk. Some
- people say that it's better to have one person at risk than another
- person dead. I disagree, because I feel that nobody should have to do
- ANYTHING with their body against their will -- as is frequently
- brought up on this group, if you're going to force a woman to let a
- fetus use her body for nine months, why not let people who need blood
- or organ donations force healthy people or recently-dead people to be
- donors too? I think donation is a good idea, but I'd fear the
- government that had the power to force me to donate something.
-
- Perhaps the fact that we're using technology to move our society in a
- certain direction says something about us, true. There's no objective
- way to say whether it's right or wrong.
-
- >We should help pregnant women experience pregnancy
- >with dignity instead of having to get abortions because of circumstances
- >they can't control. ...
- >It sickens me to hear of pregnant women having to get abortions because
- >they didn't have the support system they needed to nurture and protect their
- >babies. That is the biggest injustice ever perpetrated on a woman. Turning
- >a blind eye to the plight of these women is cruel and inhuman treatment.
- >... We must show our love and
- >compassion towards pregnant women and their babies, or we will never be
- >able to show our love towards other members of society.
-
- I can see you feel very strongly about this, and that's good. The
- most important thing we can do right now is to work to better these
- conditions; maybe someday the economy will have improved to the point
- where a woman doesn't need to worry about how she'll have enough money
- for a baby, and medicine will have improved to the point where a fetus
- can be artificially incubated if its mother is unwilling to carry it.
-
- But until we reach our goals, what's an unwillingly pregnant woman to
- do? Which is worse: to compel her to assume the risks of pregnancy
- and the tremendous physical, emotional, and financial cost of it
- unwillingly, or to allow her to have an abortion in the hopes that
- maybe she will raise a family someday when she's better prepared, if
- she wants to? In order to choose one answer to this question, you
- have to explain what's wrong with the other answer.
-
- --
- _/_/_/ Brian Kendig Je ne suis fait comme aucun
- /_/_/ bskendig@netcom.com de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
- _/_/ n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
- / Nolite te bastardes Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
- / carborundorum. -- Rousseau
-