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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Pro-Choice Criteria for Personhood
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.181436.28345@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Nov4.150513.15583@netcom.com> <1d982oINN1vj@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov4.214842.15573@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:14:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.214842.15573@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1d982oINN1vj@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- >frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >
- >> In the vast majority of abortions, the foetus will die in short order once
- >> it has been removed.
- >
- >Let's say that I should have the right to leave a dying accident victim
- >alongside the road, and to refuse to drive them to the hospital. Does it
- >follow that I should have the right to kill them?
-
- If you KNOW that they won't survive for very long, and won't have any chance
- to enjoy what little time they have left, and there is some marginal moral/
- social value to killing them on the spot, rather than having them die later
- on, why not? If they are in pain and suffering, for instance, and you know
- they won't survive, then why _not_ put them out of their misery? What if they
- ask you to?
-
- A suffering life can be worse than no life, Doug. Certainly, actual, real
- suffering is worse than the "loss of a 'potential' life": the latter is just
- an abstraction.
-
- - Kevin
-