Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment Message-ID: <308@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 18:30:42 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.308 Posted: Wed Nov 28 18:30:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 19:15:42 EST References: <1782@burdvax.UUCP> <779@ariel.UUCP> <359@klipper.UUCP> <315@qantel.UUCP> <2794@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA Lines: 18 > A case in point: the starving children of Ethiopia and other > African countries. Scientists tell us that these children are already > so severly malnourished that even if they were to survive and grow up, > they would be so severly retarted (mentally, that is) that they > wouldn't be able to take care of themselves and live a normal life. > Which means Ethiopia would have a whole generation of retarted > citizens (what an awful thought) who would be incapable of looking > after or feeding themselves or their children, which means their > children would grow up malnourished and retarded. And since the > government is too poor (and the international community too unwilling) > to guarantee nourishment for these children throughout their lives, > isn't it the most humane thing to kill those children (who would > otherwise grow up retarded) and end the misery now, rather than > propagate it for generations to come? Sounds like a job for net.euthanasia to me.