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

To: TimF who wrote (18606)	7/18/2001 12:14:17 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

But if you are looking for someone who is outraged or disgusted you can count me as one. I don't know. I think selective reduction is the most morally complex of all aspects of of abortion. Well, perhaps not the most morally complex but the most emotionally complex. I can easily imagine having an abortion but I don't know that I could go through with selective reduction. You wouldn't be in a position to make that decision if you didn't want a baby really badly since it's artificial insemination that produces the multiple births. How could you destroy one or more of what you've gone through hell to get. OTOH, septuplets, well, that's not a good thing. Not healthy for the woman. Not healthy for the babies. Not promising for the future of the family. When they do selective reduction, I wonder how they pick and choose. How could anyone do that? Even for those of us who are pragmatic about abortion, that would be just horrible. How would anyone decide? And if one postponed a decision until the woman's health were at risk but the fetuses further developed, how much harder yet it would be to reduce. Maybe they'll develop the technology to transplant reduced fetuses to those who want to adopt. I think the adoption of embryos is an absolutely wonderful idea. On the subject of stem cells and the Times article, of all the faces of need, I find Milly the most poignant. I didn't know that she was well enough to be present at hearings. Good for her. <<Then Ms. Samuelson directed lawmakers' attention to another woman sitting quietly in the audience: Milly Kondracke, the wife of the journalist Morton Kondracke, whose new book, "Saving Milly," is a painful account of how Parkinson's has ravaged his wife. >>