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To: epicure who wrote (212720)	1/12/2007 1:30:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think mothers should decide, right up to a baby being a week old or, say, 9.1 months from conception. I don't think the baby is communal property until significantly after birth. Which is not to say a mother should be allowed to do cruelty or misuse a baby which she has decided to keep alive, even if temporarily. If she has a faulty baby, she might decide she wants it dead and she might want to try again with DNA testing to avoid the previous problem. For example, a friend of our son has a genetic defect which causes stomach cancer. He has just had his stomach removed 27 December. I consider it perfectly reasonable that a mother would not want to put her child through such a thing. Normally, such a problem should be handled by embryo checking and implantation if okay. But I can imagine things not being known until birth, then lifetime-long decisions have to be made in desperate circumstances. I would not dare to presume to order a mother to keep, or not keep, a baby. It should be her decision. Not mine. Or other busy-body bossy types. Mqurice