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

To: E who wrote (4648)	2/3/2001 8:43:02 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Bland does not suggest it be criminalised. It is "potentially" a morally culpable act, if society chooses to make it so, in a way that a miscarriage would appear not to be. One is volitional, the other isn't. Should prevention of natural abortion be a high medical priority? Probably not until we've fixed so many other problems that medical researchers run out of other things to ask for money to work on. Or unless society for some reason collectively decides it's desireable enough to fund before then. Are they tragic? In a sense, yes. Bland's mother once had a miscarriage. She told us children: "Mother's baby died." We were sad. And she was sad. Certainly it was not tragedy on the level of King Lear or Oedipus where there was some great recognition of how we were all complicit in our ultimate fate on earth, but it was real and it was a loss and it was sorrowful.