Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: Whose life anyway? Message-ID: <5446@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 08:17:49 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.5446 Posted: Fri Jun 14 08:17:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Jun-85 09:19:09 EDT References: <545@bgsuvax.UUCP>, <239@azure.UUCP> <5423@cbscc.UUCP>, <992@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 17 >Yes, but the question of "what if I had been aborted?" is not more >meaningful than asking "what if I had died in that last car accident I >was in?" or "what if I had different parents?" or "what if I was born >in a different country?", and so on.... >Basically, the answer is "who knows what might have happened, probably a >bunch of good things, and a bunch of bad things, but it didn't happen, >so what is the point in wondering about it". Dying is only one type of >thing that people do that change the course of history. >-- >Sophie Quigley >{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie Dying by whose choice, Sophie? -- Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd