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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Abortion (was Vegetarianism)
- Message-ID: <C1J6EG.K6I@panix.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:01:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.140528.3259@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1993Jan25.231311.46762@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1993Jan27.044244.2582@news.eng.convex.com> <C1Itr4.M6t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In <C1Itr4.M6t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mfragass@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Fragassi) writes:
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- > But then, the issue becomes whether one believes preservation of this
- >potential is more important than the quality of the life of the mother and the
- >child-to-be.
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- Here you seem to suggest an argument for abortion based on the quality
- of life the child would have had if he had not been aborted. There's
- something puzzling about that line of thought in any but the hardest
- cases (e.g., some congenital defect that would make the child's life
- short and painful). Is that really the sort of argument you have in
- mind, or are you thinking instead of benefits to the quality of life of
- other children (such as brothers and sisters who would be burdened in
- some way by an additional sibling) or society at large?
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Alles Erworbne bedroht die Maschine, solange
- sie sich erdreistet, im Geist, statt im Gehorchen, zu sein." (Rilke)
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