Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment Message-ID: <259@scc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 12:14:51 EST Article-I.D.: scc.259 Posted: Tue Nov 27 12:14:51 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 02:26:25 EST References: <1782@burdvax.UUCP> <779@ariel.UUCP> <359@klipper.UUCP> <315@qantel.UUCP> <2794@ucbcad.UUCP> <254@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 41 > > 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. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/