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- Subject: Re: Shameless attack on pro-choicers in general!
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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:50:33 GMT
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- gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
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- ><adams.712421943@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) said:
- >>My problem with deciding how I feel on this is the possible ramifications.
- >>Assume for a moment that fetal tissue is found to cure some horrendous
- >>disease. Do you then support conception soley for provision of fetal
- >>tissue? This creates lots of issues that I don't have any answers for...
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- >I can understand your moral trepidation, but while people like yourself
- >"think things over" more people are contracting or dying from possibly
- >curable diseases.
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- Again, all I said was I don't know how to respond to this issue. I didn't
- say I was going to stop it or condone it....Even if I oppose it on moral
- grounds, I'll put it in the same class as I put abortion, so long as the
- conditions you laid out (and I deleted) such as restricting payment for
- fetal tissue are in place. That means that though I might not approve, I
- won't deny scientists the availablity of the tissue for research.
-
- -Steve
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