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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.200803.24746@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan10.170320.15365@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan18.215418.23448@rotag.mi.org> <C18AJH.JMv@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:08:03 GMT
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- In article <C18AJH.JMv@ra.nrl.navy.mil> lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.215418.23448@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin
- >Darcy) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan10.170320.15365@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu
- >(Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan10.063657.16609@rotag.mi.org>
- >>>kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>
- >>>> As far as I'm concerned, a woman and her doctor "act in accordance with the
- >
- >>>> z/e/f's right to life" as long as they
- >>>>
- >>>> a) kill the z/e/f ONLY as a "mercy killing", i.e. when it is
- >>>> pre-viable, and would die anyway shortly after removal,
- >>>
- >>>This makes no sense at all. Assuming that I have the right
- >>>to refuse to support someone who will die without my support,
- >>>how does it follow that I should have the right to kill them?
- >>
- >>If the killing bestows some positive, socially-recognized value to you, and
- >>it doesn't make any difference to them, yes. It's a highly qualified moral
- >>right, but a moral right nonetheless.
- >>
- >> - Kevin
- >>
- >Kevin -
- >
- >I don't understand your definition of "mercy killing" at all. If someone dumps
- >a dolphin in my swimming pool and I remove it, leaving it on the lawn to "die
- >anyway after removal" , is that "mercy killing"?
-
- No, exactly the opposite. Killing the dolphin instantly in the pool is more
- merciful than removing it, leaving it to die slowly. Similarly, killing a
- non-viable fetus in the uterus quickly is more merciful for all parties
- involved, than carefully removing it intact, only to have it die shortly
- afterwards. Symbolic gestures (which is how I view the intact removal of a
- non-viable fetus) are fine, but the minimization of human suffering is far
- more important.
-
- - Kevin
-