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From: hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ernest Hua)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Well?!  What did you expect?!
Message-ID: <211@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 03:01:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 03:01:03 1985
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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THIS IS AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING ARTICLE.  (Should give you an idea about
everything in general.  No guarantee, of course.)

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FIRST:	What do we use as the foundations for discussion?  Is it
	practical considerations?  Is it moral considerations?
	Please understand that a compromise is extremely difficult!

	If we use practical considerations, the pro-choice side will
	easily win since enforcement of an anti-abortion law will
	lead to more illegal abortions and further endanger women
	who cannot get doctors to say that the fetus threatens their
	life or convince judges that they were raped.  (Of course,
	this will be even worse should an ABSOLUTE anti-abortion law
	be passed.)  Doctors will probably lies significantly more
	to help patients get abortions.

	If we use moral considerations, the pro-life side will easily
	win since the abortion kills a potential human being.  Note
	that a child underaged is not a "full" human being.  The law
	certainly does not recognize that!  This does NOT prevent the
	law from protecting a child!  This should NOT prevent the law
	from protecting the fetus!

	(I would personally go for the practical choice.)

SECOND:	Decide which we want to use from "FIRST" before further dis-
	cussion on the topic itself!

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Keebler