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From: mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP (J.M.Berkley - Computing Services)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Best for Others?
Message-ID: <2630@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 06:42:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 06:42:28 1986
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Keywords: abortion morals

In article <2061@curly.ucla-cs.ARPA> oleg@OACVAX.BITNET (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>In article <686@cal-asd.fluke.UUCP> ptl@cal-asd.UUCP (Mike Andrews) writes:
>>Then go another step and put in the
>>words long term sickness, quadraplegic, ... - another possible direction
>>things can go.
>
>Do not attempt to cloud the issue! A local court case of a quadruplegic
>woman, who practically lived on pain killers and just wanted to have the
>doctors let her die,  is  still too fresh in my memory. I wish you never 
>have to face a situation in which either you will be begging someone to 
>kill you to end your suffering, or someone close to you was writhing in
>pain for months or years, while you held their death and a release from
>pain in your hands!
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I think that Mike was referring to the logical extension of all
arguments about the usefulness of someone to society: forced
euthanasia.  I have misgivings about euthanasia for someone who
wants to be freed from suffering, but I can't honestly say that
it is right or wrong.  However, it is not right to force euthanasia
on someone.  That is what Mike Andrews was getting at.

The conclusion, it is not right to force euthanasia on the unborn
baby.

Mike Berkley