From: utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!decot Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: Abortion - Scenarios Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.448 Posted: Sat Jan 29 17:05:20 1983 Received: Sun Jan 30 01:55:57 1983 These are my opinionated answers to your five questions about the Singer Scenario, although you probably thought the answers were obvious, and an explanation follows. 1. It is not murder to break the connection. 2. No, you are not obligated in any way to be connected. 3. No, you are not obligated to continue to be connected, because you did not have any way of choosing whether to be connected in the first place; that is, you did not, by any act or agreement on your part, choose to be susceptible to this situation. 4. Society has the obligation to attempt to preserve the life of the singer, as long as those involved in his preservation either: 1) are directly responsible for his dilemma, or 2) want to help him out of compassion for human life. 5. Society has the obligation to attempt to preserve my rights to live my life the way I want to, but not if I deny responsibility for my actions. The difference between the scenario you give and the morphology of most situations in which abortion is performed is that the abductee has no way of preventing the singer's illness, but the parents of aborted children choose through their (willfully or irresponsiblly) unprevented conception to put themselves (and their child) in that position. If you want to know, I take every opportunity to help others in every way I can that does not subject me to WORSE conditions than they; I would therefore CONTINUE to be connected to the singer as long as I could be of benefit to him without killing myself, but I would object to the methods used by the cult in securing my cooperation. -Dave Decot -...decvax!cwruecmp!decot