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- From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:19:19 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Boy, this is cool. People actually responding to my posts, reacting to
- my hot air. Just think, in no time they'll be insulting me. :)
- Anyway....
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- In article <1993Jan19.050539.6745@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) (Hey, that's me!) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- Well I didn't say it would be easy. Heck, it might even become
- ridiculously cheap once we get the details worked out, though.
- Technology on its own nearly always seems to get cheaper.
-
- But you're right, it would be costly, and I realized that before I
- even posted the above. But let's not give up on this road yet. Every
- time I wrestle with the abortion issue, I always end up concluding
- that a unilateral decision one way or the other isn't ever gonna be
- final. If pro-life and pro-choice can't agree, we can at least come
- up with a third option that would make abortion completely unnecessary.
-
- Paul Brinkley
- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- Pro-Thought Advocate
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