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Subject: Re: Best for Others?
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In article <2625@watdcsu.UUCP> mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP (J.M.Berkley - Computing Services) writes:
>
>I don't recall any societies where murder is condoned for the
>sake of convenience.  Sure there are/were societies where babies
>were murdered for religious ceremonies or entire villages were
>slaughtered for reasons of war but I do not know of any society
>where it was acceptable for a child to be killed for reasons of
>convenience.
>
>That's what abortion is.  A matter of convenience.
>
>Mike


How about ancient Greece and Rome?  In those societies, it was permissible
for a father to expose a newborn baby outdoors if he felt that the baby
was too weak or sickly to be worth supporting, i.e. if the father thought
that raising the child would be too inconvenient.