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

To: Lane3 who wrote (78936)	11/11/2003 3:03:46 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Now if you'd just acknowledge that saving that embryo has costs other than to the reckless woman who needs to be punished, we could at least agree to disagree. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. We can never know whether the unwanted child will grow up to a net contributor or a net cost to society. We can never know whether the parents will find unexpected joy and fulfillment in the child that they initially didn't want. Sometimes wanted children are huge burdens on society, and unwanted children are great gifts to society. Sometimes the opposite. Perhaps we can agree that saving the embryo has both potential costs and potential benefits, and we will never know until we know. And will you agree that abortion often has costs to the woman who aborts, too? There are many women who are distraught because they chose or were persuaded to abort a child and under go true self-punishment for the rest of their lives. In some cases the abortion winds up making them sterile and they can never have the children they later desperately want. Costs go both ways, you know.