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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Roe v. Wade is unrestricted abortion-on-demand
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.051159.13827@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 05:11:59 GMT
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- In article <0fMQXS600iUy83bdEX@andrew.cmu.edu> Michael Loomis <ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Excerpts from netnews.talk.abortion: 20-Jan-93 Re: Roe v. Wade is
- >unrestri.. by Doug Holtsinger@eceyv.nc
- >> Many children are killed in the womb at a late-stage because
- >> they're mentally retarded. Here's one woman suggesting that
- >> she should have the right to have a mentally retarded child
- >> executed in her womb:
- >>
- >> "I'm suggesting we lift the veil of privacy and professionalism
- >> to explore issues of heath care, abortion, and the right to
- >> choose death, as well as life, for our genetically disabled
- >> fetuses."
- >>
- >> -- Rayna Rapp, in _The Choices We Made_, discussing her
- >> abortion of a Down's syndrome child in the 21st week
- >> of pregnancy.
- >
- > After the second trimester, is it safer for the mother to wait until
- >the deformed child is born to kill it? If so, then I, like Mr.
- >Holtsinger, would favor infanticide over a third trimester abortion.
- >
- It is always safer for the mother to abort then to deliver. And
- it should be noted that the story DODie related was about a 2nd
- trimester abortion, not third.
-
- >For Voluntary Motherhood,
- >
- I like that idea.
-
- >ps Is there sufficient data to be able to compare the relative safety of
- >third trimester abortion to childbirth?
-
- There's not much data on thirs tris since so few are ever done, but
- there's still data. And it shows that abortion is still safer then
- birth. I'll look up the relevant figures if you're really interested.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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