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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3802)	1/28/2001 9:59:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The relative burden of these "miracle babies" is EXTREMELY expensive and there are issues of morality when there are infants in the same country dying for lack of basic medical care. There are many issues of both morality and the allocation of resources around the religious construct that a celestial guiding hand decides who lives and dies and when that happens. It applies to the not yet born, the just born, and the not quite dead. I don't know how we can let the "invisible friend" of a political interest group make these determinations for us, but I don't expect so much as an open discussion on it in my lifetime. Karen

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3802)	1/28/2001 11:59:42 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

That's right. It isn't only medical care. It is a lifetime, it could be 90 years, of 24 hour a day tax-funded custodial nursing care, in many cases. While, as you say " there are issues of morality when there are infants in the same country dying for lack of basic medical care." And old people lying in their own feces, neglected, in nursing homes. Let's not even talk about children in other countries with no medical care at all. A person could die of sadness and go crazy at the same time thinking about these things.