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- From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
- Subject: Pro-Life? (was Re: Hypocrites?)
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:49:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.164357.13291@csus.edu> <adams.712521565@spssig> <1992Jul30.191305.21907@ncsu.edu>
- Organization: Our Lady of Heavy Artillery
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- In article <1992Jul30.191305.21907@ncsu.edu>, dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug
- Holtsinger) wrote:
- >
- > In article <adams.712521565@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >
- > > What the "Pro-Life" people want is an end to abortion. Period.
- > > Therefore, the proper appelation would well be "anti-abortion."
- >
- > Not necessarily. Many of the pro-life people also oppose euthanasia
- > and the use of anencephalic infants as organ donor sources.
-
- In what possible sense can opposition to the use of anencephalic infants as
- organ donors be construed as being "pro-life"?
-
- Several months ago, there was a fairly well publicized case in which the
- parents of an anencephalic baby desperately wanted their child's organs to
- be available for transplant. My recollection is that they were opposed by
- a "pro-life" group, and the case was taken to court. The parents wishes
- were disallowed, as I recall, after the court ruled against them.
-
- Their baby died; it would have under any circumstances. Quite likely
- several other children who could have benefitted from the organs, had they
- been transplanted, died as well. In what sense is this a "pro-life"
- stance?
-
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- Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
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