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To: Machaon who wrote (78081)	11/16/2000 3:17:34 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

OK. I agree with this. Let's allow for PBA only if the physical health or life of the mother is at stake. Done. [The use of PBA in cases of doomed and deformed children] should be left up to the pregnant woman. Most would prefer the much less invasive D&E rather than having their stomachs cut open. The point is, if the baby is doomed (dead or brainless) so that it cannot survive (i.e. actualize on the human continuum), then Partial Birth Abortion is obviously a non-issue. If the baby is significantly deformed but can actualize, then our judging whether it should live or die is quite arbitrary and thus barbaric. Rather than put a doomed, deformed child thru months of misery, why not use PBA? Three reasons (1.) We cannot calculate the value of human life, even one that exists only for months, (2) We can manage pain or at least seek to better manage it without resorting to murder, (3.) We cannot know for how long the deformed child will live until it lives and dies. If one child is projected to live only for three months and another is projected to live a year, should we kill the 3 months child, the 1 year child or both? I think it is not a decision for anyone to make. We should aim to do no harm, not arbitrarily judge who should die. That way his/her soul goes directly to Heaven for an eternity of wonderful pleasure, much better than you could ever get on Earth? The problem concerns not so much the murdered child’s soul. It concerns ours.