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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Whose life anyway?
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Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 23:41:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  8 23:41:37 1985
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> 
>      Interesting case to "bring to life" - so to speak:
> I have a close friend, who has the right to speak up in this area of 
> understandable naivety. He is the first born of 3 brothers. Under 
> reverent advice, his mother was advised strongly to "have an abortion",
> soon before the date of expectancy. The doctor, in this case, basically
> had a genuine concern for his mother, who because of extreem medical
> dificulty will allways bear children under life threatening circumstances.
> (That is only to her own life unless an abortion is carried out)  
> Concerned basically for the life inside her body more than her own life,
> she went aginst strong "medical advice" (3 times). I know I'm thankfull
> she did , I know she is, and without a doubt I'm sure Chris (my friend)
> is also! I realize this is one individual case , with it's own unique
> set of factors and circumstance, and is diferent from thousands - millions
> of abortions in question. But what if in any case you were the life in 
> question or (1 of the 3 brothers)?

	First, and most importantly, I wasn't aborted [need I point this out?].
Therefore this question is kind of pointless.

	Second, if I had been aborted, I wouldn't be around to wonder about
whether I should have been aborted or not.  So again, the question is kind of
pointless.

	Since I can either be aborted or not aborted, the obvious conclusion is
that the question IS pointless.

						Chris Andersen