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To: steve harris who wrote (213581)	1/19/2007 7:50:05 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So at what point can we throw them in the garbage, in your view? 20 weeks? 15? when?

To: steve harris who wrote (213581)	1/19/2007 12:38:52 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Steve, I agree with you. I think throwing fetuses of 23 week gestation in garbage cans is a terrible thing and I would never do it. There's not a thing wrong with us having that position. Or the position that life begins at conception and thus any abortion is wrong, or that abortion is fine until quickening, or that abortion is fine until 40 weeks. But these are only opinions, and making that call for another woman, or insisting the government make the call for her, feels arrogant, simplistic- and wrong- to me. Which of course is why this is such an impossible issue. There are no absolute rights or wrongs other than one's own moral code. All we can do is try to reach reasonable compromises, some middle ground that doesn't preclude personal responsibility (whether we approve the decision or not) but prevents a totally reckless disregard for a fully gestated baby. I consider discussions about 23 v 24 weeks a sign of a pretty decent compromise at work.