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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: another semi-comprehensive reply (A challenge to prolifers)
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 14:01:55 EST
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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) = >>
>> Fetuses can be aborted alive.  The reason they die, is that we have not 
>> yet developed the technology to artificially maintain them.  If the pro-
>> life groups were directing their energies towards the development of an 
>> artificial womb rather than trying to impose their morality on others, I 
>> don't think we would be arguing.
 
From: Paul V. Torek, ihnp4!wucs!wucec1!pvt1047 = >
>I think this is the best solution, but as those who know more biology than
>I do can assure you, this technology is not as easy as you make it sound.  
>The question remains what to do in the (probably lengthy) meantime.

I agree, this technology is not easy.  It would take a lot of money.
It is probably easier to develop artificial womb than develop 
a mobile artificial heart and lung system.  If the same amount of effort
was given to the development of artificial womb, as to the space program, 
we would have it by now.  My contention is that many of those
on the pro-life side are more interested to impose their religious
code on others, who do not subscribe to their beliefs, than find a
technological solution to the problem. 

You are asking, "What should we do in the mean time?"
Where have you been all these years?  Why didn't you try to
find resources to solve this problem? Do you expect unwilling
women to be the host for unwanted fetus just because this is
the dictation of your moral code?

The problem that we should be discussing is how we should handle
the fetus outside the woman womb, and not whether we should coerce
women to carry their pregnancies.  We should be discussing how
to get a crash program for both artificial womb and fetus transplant.
The question is money and who is going to pay for it.  But
money should not be an obstacle, as this is a moral issue.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen
Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
(312)-979-7321
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