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To: blue red who wrote (562094)	4/8/2004 9:00:46 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 769670

I don't think she got that far in the thinking process.

To: blue red who wrote (562094)	4/8/2004 11:29:30 PM
From: Neenny	Respond to of 769670

What I am saying is, that I don't think that delivering the fetus in feti is or should be considered an abortion. I am saying that if all reasonable attempts to save the life of that fetus in feti are made, and are unsuccessful it would be no different than a woman carrying to term a malformed child that did not have all the organs required to sustain life. To look at it as I attempted to say the first time, is that if a full term baby was delivered, without life sustaining organs no one would say that mother aborted her child. It would simply be that the child died at birth. I feel this would be a similar occurrence. There could presumably be a situation where a fetus in feti had a head, a brain, lungs and other internal organs to sustain life. In that situation, I believe that the attempt should be made to deliver a living fetus. In the situation you presented, that is not a possibility. Therefore, I would not consider the deliver of such a fetus as an abortion at all, again if all possible attempts were made to sustain the life of the fetus when possible.

To: blue red who wrote (562094)	4/8/2004 11:41:37 PM
From: Neenny	Respond to of 769670

Originally I had made the following comment as well.... Is attempting to deliver this child an abortion? I don't think so. Therefore, I don't think it is a moral issue here, this fetus was more than what would normally be a full term baby, by quite a few YEARS, yet was still unable to sustain life and would never be able to sustain life. Which did indicated that my thoughts on this matter was that attempting to deliver such a baby should not automatically be called an abortion. How about an unsuccessful delivery? You did not state in your summary, did the doctors in the program you watched refer to this procedure as an abortion? Just wondering