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From: ix192@sdccs6.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: organ replacement vs. child bearing
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 14:23:50 EST
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From: ...ihnp4!ihnp1!dolan (Mike Dolan)

> The major distinction between bearing a child and donating organs
> and limbs is that in bearing a child, no part of the mother's body
> is given up.  At the end of the child bearing, the mother's entire
> body still remains intact.  When organs are donated, there is an 
> actual physical loss to the donating individual.  This is true even
> when the body may be capable of regenerating the lost part, such as
> in the case of a blood transfusion.

Yes Mike, afterwards the BODY is intact.  But there's more to a person than 
their body -- their mind, their life, their FUTURE.  Just because the woman's 
body is basically unchanged after a birth (gimme a break on the delivery 
changes!), that does not mean that everything else about her will be just as 
unchanged.  Suppose someone just handed you a child.  Are you ready for it?  
Will you be able to father it and take care of it up until college, just as you
are now, married or not?  Most people are not ready for a child, just out of 
the blue!  Eight months of preparation is not much time, either.  Can you get
married and finantially well-settled in eight months?

While there is no physical loss to the mother, refusing an abortion will
certainly take away a lot of futures from the woman involved, possibly all her 
chances for a better life.  In that, there is a bigger loss than any organ donor
would take.

				   Kenn the Kenf
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