From: Barbara Lamar (shabrika@juno.com)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 12:31:46 MDT
>
> So if society conducts itself according to *your* belief that a 3
> month old
> fetus is mere biological rubbish
"Society" shouldn't be making such choices in the first place. It's the
individual WOMAN who has to use up her energy, her time, her spirit
growing the embryo into a baby. Until such time as it becomes feasible
to routinely grow embryos in artificial wombs--and even then there's some
question in my mind as to whether "society" should have the right to
harvest a fertile egg from a woman's body and grow it into a baby--the
choice should be solely up to the woman.
I know I'm treading on VERY thin ice with the following statement, but
I'd argue in favor of a woman's right to dispose of a newly born baby.
Please know that I say this as a mother who fiercly protected her own
fetus from the abortionist's suction device and who would have given her
life to save the life of her child--and still would. But I've also SEEN
what it's like to be living on the edge and to be forced to bear and care
for a baby. Believe me, from the baby's point of view, death would be
far preferable to that which such children are often forced to endure.
Barbara
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