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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: punishment & abortion (cont.) (moral)
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Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 16:34:53 EST
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Sophie's analysis of the prohibition of abortion as punishment of the
mother (and perhaps father) for irresponsible attitudes is very acute.
Perhaps is should be extended, because the child whose birth is forced
is equally being punished by being brought into the world unwanted
and probably unloved.  Such a child may well wish s/he had never been
born.  To be brought up unwanted can truly be a fate worse than death.

So the punishment the  "moralists" want to visit upon the unfortunate
parents is probably the only true case of the sins of the fathers being
visited upon the sons.
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Martin Taylor
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