kin@laidbak.UUCP (Kin Wong) (09/15/84)
>> For those of you who maintain that >>abortion == murder, but then say that the woman should not be tried for >>murder, please justify. >Both the women and the doctor should be prosecuted. As it is pre-meditated, it >should probably be treated as murder in the first degree. Good, at least there is some consistency here. >>Furthermore, all the anger that I see from the anti-abortion >>group, about pro-choice people are condoning murder >*IF* the fetus is a human being, what else would you call it. I call it a fetus. I also call a frozen embryo a frozen embryo. I don't call a tadpole a frog. >>I suspect all these noise about fetus rights >>are mere disguise for some people to impose their morals and beliefs >>on others. (For those who are totally sincere on fetus rights -- well >>I respect your view, but I don't agree with it). But I am digressing. >I really can't see someone supporting a cause for no other reason than to >inflict their beliefs. I will, however, take a stand against those who oppose >abortion simply because they've been told to without giveing the matter serious >thought. You are obviously ignorant of the religious persecutions, holy wars and the like throughout history and even to the present day. You should try to take a vacation in Iran. The same thing can be said of communist oppression. >>But there are other reasons >>too, like if the fetus is diagnosed to be malformed (among some parents >>who have a high risk due to their genetics, many of them would use >>abortion to try for a second, third, or fourth time to get a non-malformed >>baby, many would not have the courage to try for a second time if >>they have had a malformed one), >Are you saying that malformed babies are less valuable, or that if they are >people they should have less rights? Whether malformed fetuses are less valuable is not for you or me to say, I suggest you leave it to the parents. For many parents, malformed fetuses are indeed less valuable, and they do not want them. They are the ones who have to take care of them if they proceed to have the baby (and some do), not you. If they decide to carry on with the pregnancy and have the baby even if it is deformed, fine, and my blessings to them, and the baby should have as much rights as any other baby. But until they decide on not to have an abortion, I suggest you leave the decision to them. They may have failed to be saints, but you don't send them to jail for not living up to your moral standards. kin wong (..ihnp4!iwlc8!klw)