From: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
Subject: Re: TOO YOUNG TO CHOOSE
Originator: jjprice@c00081-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:06:28 GMT


In article <83126@ut-emx.uucp>, andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:

|>jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
|>>bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
|>
|>>|>Jeff, before I go any further -- thanks for keeping this discussion
|>>|>civil so far.  You're bringing up some interesting points.
|>
|>>I try. Please remind me when I get off the beaten path
|>
|>I don't think that'll be too hard to remember, especially for THIS
|>newsgroup.  ;-)
|>
|>>True. Education is a primary step to solving the problem because most
|>>abortions are performed because they are unwanted pregnancies.If we
|>>educate people on where babies come from we could cut down on the number 
|>>hopefully
|>
|>Here we are 100% agreed.
|>
Great what are we going to do now this is t.a we are not supposed to agree.
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|>>Concerning the rest of your question about an wanted pregnancy becoming
|>>unwanted I would absolutely keep this woman from having an abortion unless
|>>it threatened her life. When she intentinally got pregnant she did it
|>>for the sole purpose of bringing life into this world and now that she is
|>>carring and nurturing that life inside her womb she wants to kill it and
|>>snuff out its life because she's having second thoughts. How  cruel
|>>can you get?
|>
|>Pretty damn cruel, if the occasion warrants.  But that's neither here nor
|>there; we're talking about a woman aborting a fetus.
|>
I have been having a problem lately with people editing out the questions
I reply to. I don't mind editing to save space but please leave in the 
original question.Is this how it is done please let me know.

|>Jeff, I've discussed this with my mother (who's had a tubal ligation, so
|>this was an academic discussion).  She pointed out that there are certain
|>genetic defects which do not show up until later in a pregnancy and which
|>are universally life-threatening.  An example is Tay-Sachs Syndrome.  The
|>child is born, lives his brief life in excruciating pain, requires a
|>great deal of medical attention, and dies very young.
|>
It sound like Tay-Sachs is rare.Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have
an answer to this because I feel that they should get a chance to live
but is a life full of pain worth it? This is a moral and philisophical
question that I am sure many people would have trouble anwering.

I feel that there should be exception(who and why i don't know yet) but
for the sake of convience lets stick to the majority of abortion cases.

|>There is not one recorded case of a Tay-Sachs child living past the age
|>of five. (If this has changed, please let me know; Mom and I were talking
|>about this a while ago.)
|>
|>Jeff, by blocking this abortion, you are condemning a child to a short,
|>pain-ridden life, and you are forcing his parents to support him and his 
|>medical bills and watch their young boy (*) suffer and die, far too soon.
|>If the parents can't afford to care for their son for up to five years,
|>including vastly expensive hospital stays, they may well go into a very
|>deep debt.  There's also the strain on the family to consider.  Are you
|>willing to say that this woman cannot spare her family all that anguish?
|>
|>If so, then you've proven just how cruel *you* can be.
|>
|>(*) Unless I'm grossly misremembering, Tay-Sachs affects almost exclusively
|>boys, hence the non-PC language.
|>
|>>|>That term sounds like just a contrived way to make a fetus sound more
|>>|>significant.  Have you ever heard of a child being called a
|>>|>"pre-mature adult"?
|>
|>>Actualy I have! :)
|>
|>"Well, they're PRE-women." :-)
|>
|>>|>Again, you're using the future tense: "will develop."  Do you deserve
|>>|>Secret Service protection today just because you have the potential to
|>>|>someday be President of the United States?
|>
|>>No I don't think I should have secret Service agents although I would
|>>feel safer walkiong around campus if I did.
|>
|>Considering where you attend, I don't blame you.
|>
NC State is not that bad just don't go around alone in the middle of the night.

|>--
|>--Andrew Hackard  

-Jeff Price

	"What is legally permissible rapidly comes to be seen as
	 morally acceptable" 
			- Cardinal Cahal Daly of Ireland

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