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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.035734.4006@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan15.215303.7141@noao.edu> <llm1glINN8r8@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <1993Jan19.050539.6745@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:57:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.050539.6745@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <llm1glINN8r8@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
- >
- >[Deletions. Just 'cause I wanna]
- >
- >>If she mainly doesn't want the physical difficulty of the pregnancy
- >>process, how about an incubator that could support the fetus until
- >>its original projected birthdate? Anyone happen know what state
- >>research is in concerning this?
- >>
- >No state at all, really. Look at it from a pragmatic standpoint. Are
- >*you* going to pay for this incubator? Please keep in mind that
- >current technology can easily run over $5000 a day for an NICU stay.
- >What you are describing would be vastly more complex, and
- >correspondingly more expensive.
- >It's a nice idea, but it just doesn't fit the realities of life. We
- >can't even save all the ones people *do* want, let alone the ones they
- >don't want.
-
- Yeah, and the world is flat, too, Mark. If you don't believe it, just keep
- sailing East until you fall off the edge...
-
- Since the dawn of time, visionaries have had to endure the constant whines
- and doubts and putdowns of non-visionaries. The wheel? It'll never work!
- Fire? Just a fad! Organ transplants? You're nuts! Even as a medical layperson,
- I can imagine an inexpensive "auto-momma", Mark. Maybe not in my lifetime, but
- sometime. Why can't you?
-
- - Kevin
-