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To: Rambi who wrote (78646)11/5/2003 5:34:14 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
I don't think Jewel understands what late term abortions are about. If he did, he would probably still oppose them, but he would at least have more compassion for those involved.



To: Rambi who wrote (78646)11/5/2003 5:40:11 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
I don't know if Karen knows what the rally for PBAs is really about. She may and just prefer denial, but I don't know. Her comments about how much compassion I have about anything are certainly uninformed. And her comments about mercifully short lives and eliminating suffering by killing children are quite revealing.



To: Rambi who wrote (78646)11/5/2003 6:10:44 PM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 82486
 
In a way, these decisions are the product, just as the decision about Terri Shiavo is, of technical advances that have moved faster than the moral conflicts can be fully considered.

Of course, that is the critical issue. Many of these infants were not intended by evolution to survive. Our ethics have not caught up with our technology.



To: Rambi who wrote (78646)11/5/2003 8:10:34 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 82486
 
I think these areas are almost impossible to decide legally- in blanket terms. I think we must make sure that the comatose, and the unborn do not suffer, but the brain dead and the grossly deformed have no inherent right to exist, just because technology has made it so they can exist. Not everything that can be, should be- especially from a resource utilization standpoint.