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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.082856.13095@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:28:56 GMT
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- In article <C1HABy.KJ4@hpchase.rose.hp.com> hamilton@mothra.rose.hp.com (Steve Hamilton) writes:
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- > The
- > two week old infant is no more "viable" than the eight month old fetus.
- Boy, do *you* ever need a remedial biology class....
-
- > Both must be cared for and nurtured and yet in most states (in ALL states
- > if the FOCA passes) it is legal to abort a fetus up through the ninth
- > month. You said the infant could be given up for adoption rather than
- > killing it, couldn't the same thing be done for the fetus?
- >
- Depends. Are *you* willing to pay the bills for removing the living
- premature fetus from the woman and maintaining it on life support, no
- matter what defects it may have? If so, may I have your credit card
- number? There's a couple families with kids in the NICU here that are
- never going to be able to pay their bills (for kids they want).
-
- > Just as a point of reference as to where my view come from. I am an
- > adoptee born in 1958 (thankfully before abortion was so common). My
- > mother was 17, in high school, and ask to leave her home by her step
- > mother. In todays climate, odds are I would not have been born.
- >
- Given the birth rate for 17 year olds vs the abortion rate, I must
- queston that validity of the statement 'odds are I would not have been
- born'.
- Besides, if you had been aborted, you wouldn't *care*, now would you?
-
- > I find that sobering.
- >
- I find it totally irrelevant to the abortion issue.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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