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- From: sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: aborting females
- Message-ID: <Sep07.195009.77611@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 19:50:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.184902.15287@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1992Aug27.190809.26107@u.washington.edu> <1992Aug28.180126.4779@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Aug31.083609.19696@pegasus.com>
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- In article <1992Aug31.083609.19696@pegasus.com>, tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug28.180126.4779@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price) writes:
- |> >In <1992Aug27.190809.26107@u.washington.edu> jnorris@milton.u.washington.edu (Joel Norris) writes:
- |> >
- |> >>Well, I was wondering if there was anyone here who supported abortion but
- |> >>wanted to stop sex-selection abortions, and so far it appears there isn't
- |> >>anyone.
- |> >>
- |> > Actually, it seems that there are many people on the .net (some of
- |> >whom have applied to your posting) who would like there to be no
- |> >sex-selection abortions, but realize that there is absolutely no way it
- |> >could be legislated.
- |> >
- |> >>Joel
- |> >
- |> > MP
- |>
- |> This will not be legislated, it will be made an uncovered benefit
- |> in insurance plans. If the woman wishes to pay the whole tab herself,
- |> she will likely find someone willing to do it. But third party payors
- |> are going to respond to the pressure from organized medicine and
- |> refuse to pay the tab since it is NOT 'medically necessary'.
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- I wonder why you say that sex-selection abortions are not medically
- necessary. They can be. What if the woman simply could not psychologically live
- with herself if she had a boy? Maybe she's not ready for a boy, maybe she
- psychologically needs a girl. Whose welfare means more to you: the woman's or
- those of the clump of cells in her abdomen? Would you condemn this woman morally for merely
- having an inconvenient part of her own body removed?
- If abortion is morally right, sex-selection abortions are morally right.
- If the fetus isn't human enough to be protected from other abortions, then it
- isn't human enough to deserve protection from sex-selection abortions. To
- suggest otherwise is to be inconsistent.
-
- Steve
-