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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 18:30:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 18:30:42 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?


Sounds like a job for net.euthanasia to me.