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- From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
- Subject: abortion and economics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.1842.656@execnet>
- Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
- Organization: Executive Networks Information
- Distribution: alt
- Date: 26 Jan 93 08:58:57 EST
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- LT> Fetuses are aborted yes. And if those babies had been born, who
- LT>would take care of them? Who is paying to feed and clothe them and
- LT>their mothers?
-
- Consider this:
-
- "It is cheaper for our society to destroy alphas <author's term for
- unborn children> at $100 apiece <note: 1979 fees?> than to take
- responsibility for aiding poor women and children. This may be good
- politics, perhaps, but it is hardly exemplary social morality."
-
- "Certain human issues are too grave to be handled in this way and
- must be shielded from a cost-effectiveness theory. Abortion is one
- of them."
-
- From: Nathanson, Bernard MD with Richard N. Osling. ABORTING AMERICA.
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. Quotes from p. 190.
-
- The socioeconomic problems you mention exists, but is abortion the
- solution? Don't we have other options?
-
- BTW, there are organizations which will help. Not enough, perhaps,
- but the call is out now to provide more centers where women may be
- helped before and after live birth.
-
- Adrienne Franco
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