Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 1992 17:12:39 -0400 
From: "Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz" <ag1v+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Human Worth in Unborn (was Re: Poof! Martins a f..

I want to say first that I really liked Mr. Kendig's article and that
I found it very thought provoking. Because of this I have a question:

Excerpts from netnews.talk.abortion: 8-Oct-92 Re: No Human Worth in
Unbor.. by Brian Kendig@netcom.com 
> I don't know if you don't understand our position or if you're just
> outraged at it, but let me try to explain it anyway.  Discriminating
> between one thinking, living person and another based on skin color or
> hair color or sex is bad, of course.  But discriminating between one
> organism and another based on the existence of a brain or the ability
> to survive without being a parasite seems only logical to me.

Huh? Does this mean that you would be against aborting fetuses but not
against aborting zygotes and embryos which haven't yet developed enough
for the possibility of survival outside the mother?

I think you mentioned that you changed your position because you found
out that third trimester abortions are so uncommon. I thought I read
recently that they made up 10% of abortions done in this country. I'll
have to check. But that doesn't seem incredibly uncommon to me.

Since I've gotten access to abstracts of some paper articles, I'll
include a few on third trimester abortions. Again, I don't have access
to the actual articles most of the time.

Author       Hanafin, Teresa M
Title        Group Criticizes Weld Stance on THIRD-TRIMESTER Abortions
Source       Boston Globe,  May 7, 1992,  39:1
Abstract     Massachusetts Citizens for Life attacked Governor Weld's opinion
             that government should not restrict a woman's right to an
             ABORTION at any time during her pregnancy, calling his viewpoint
             "gruesome."
Subjects     ABORTION

Author       Kolata, Gina
Title        In Late Abortions, Decisions Are Painful and Options Few
Source       New York Times,  Jan 5, 1992,  1, 1:4
Features     Photograph
Abstract     Although most doctors will not do them, there are a few
             physicians in the US who will perform abortions in the THIRD
             TRIMESTER of pregnancy if fetuses are severely deformed.  Such
             doctors have raised objections from both sides of the ABORTION
             debate.
Subjects     ABORTION; Medical ethics; Physicians; Hospitals & clinics; 
             Fetuses; Birth defects

Author       Belkin, Lisa
Title        New Inquiry for Physician on ABORTION
Source       New York Times,  Nov 22, 1991,  B, 1:5
Abstract     Abu Hayat, the New York City doctor accused of severing the arm
             of a fetus during an illegal THIRD-TRIMESTER ABORTION, is being
             investigated for a botched ABORTION that killed Sophie McCoy in
             1990.
Subjects     Medical malpractice; ABORTION; Investigations; Physicians
PersonalName Hayat, Abu; McCoy, Sophie
ISSN         0362-4331

Author       Miller, Bradley
Title        The Authority to Kill
Source       Wall Street Journal,  Sep 17, 1991,  A, 17:1
Abstract     Bradley Miller says that the Supreme Court has not mandated
             unlimited "ABORTION on demand" and, in fact, has never 
             prohibited states from resticting or even from banning ABORTION 
             in the THIRDTRIMESTER except when ABORTION is needed to protect 
             a woman's life or health.
Subjects     Letters to the editor; ABORTION; Court rulings; Government
             regulation

Author       Tye, Larry
Title        ABORTION Furor Called Political, Not Medical
Source       Boston Globe,  Aug 26, 1989,  17:1
Abstract     According to Boston-area health officials, the debate over
             whether abortions should be permitted in the THIRD TRIMESTER of
             pregnancy is a political, rather than medical, question.
Subjects     ABORTION; Medical care; Politics; Medical ethics; Womens rights
             movement
ISSN         0743-179

Author       Tumulty, Karen
Title        The Abortions of Last Resort
Source       Los Angeles Times,  Jan 7, 1990,  MAG, 10:1
Features     Photograph; Illustration
Abstract     James T.  McMahon, a physican that specializes in second- and
             THIRD-TRIMESTER abortions, is profiled.  An in-depth look is 
             also taken at the ABORTION laws which permit second- and THIRD-
             TRIMESTER abortions to be performed in the US.
Subjects     Biographical profiles; Physicians; ABORTION; Laws & legislation


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