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- From: cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb)
- Subject: Re: When is a fetus not a person?
- References: <1993Jan23.182348.7135@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:26:37 GMT
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- In <1993Jan27.232029.10335@ncar.ucar.edu> kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian
- Kauffman) writes:
-
- >> = cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
- >>> = kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>>[deleted material]
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- >>> This is not the whole truth: taken in context, it's seems rather obvious
- >>> (to most people) that no woman would go through 9 months of pregnancy
- >>> and then have an abortion for some trivial reason (on account the rather
- >>> large natural disincentives to do so, ask a woman for details).
- >>> o Is there any reason to restrict late-term abortions? Ie. can you
- >>> document any "abuse" of late-term abortions?
- >>> o Assuming such "abuse" existed, would outlawing abortion end this abuse
- >>> while preserving unhindered access for those needing (not abusing)
- >>> late-term abortions?
-
- >>If it is obvious to most people that a woman should not (would not?) go
- through
- >>nine months pregnancy and then get an abortion does that mean those people
- >>would support legislation prohibiting that?
-
- >Probably not, because while such a law would be useless wrt it's
- >intended purpose, it would also have serious and unintended negative
- >side effects. Abortion is legal now, and yet some women have had to
- >fly from state to state in a desperate attempt to get a life saving
- >late-term abortion. (Has anyone got that 60-minutes transcript?)
- >Even now, "abortion on demand" is not a reality, and lives have already
- >been seriously threated by this lack of "abortion on demand".
-
- >-Brian
-
- But isn't the whole point of the pro-life, or whatever..., issue that lives
- also are threatened when there IS abortion on demand, i.e., the life of the
- fetus? I do agree that there should be late term abortions when the life of
- the mother is clearly threatened, btw. Does that end up arguably making my
- position inconsistent? Again, life, human life - if it is such, is threatened
- by early, middle, and late term abortions.
-
- MAC
- .
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