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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 12:14:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 12:14:51 1984
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> 		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?
> 	

	RIGHT ON!!   The "pro-life" people seem to think that quantity
of life is better than quality of life.   It is like the Monty
Python sketch where the father sells his childern to be medical
experiments to make ends meet.   He has dozens of childern because
he is Catholic and they do not use birth control.    As they are being
lead off the childern sing:

	Every sperm is sacred,
		every sperm is good.
	They should not be wasted
		around the neighborhood.

	It is almost incomprehensible to many, but most of the
children in Ethiopia that are starving now would be better off
dying.

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