Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: Response to Gary's (a pro-choicer's mind is changed (slightly)) Message-ID: <4636@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 10:10:43 EST Article-I.D.: cbscc.4636 Posted: Mon Jan 21 10:10:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:06:51 EST References: <3300@alice.UUCP> <530@mhuxt.UUCP>, <676@bunker.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 26 I would go along with Gary's position on changing the law. An improvement would be most welcome. Polls show that most people (over 70%, I think) would favor a law prohibiting abortion except in cases of rape, incest, danger to the mother's life and severe birth defects (e.g. a condition where the infant is born with no brain.). That's probably where the law should stand now to reflect the consensus. I have problems with accepting a compromise (Jeff's proposal) which whould require us to agree to it as a final solution. Making such a significant change would require us to think through the whole issue again in the new context. If the motive behind the compromise is so we don't have to think about the issue anymore I think it's not acceptable. If we view it as a step in the right direction that doesn't close the issue for further debate, that's fine. Someone already quoted from the Jan. 14 issue of Newsweek. I think those were good articles. There are also some very good articles in the current issue of Christianity Today realating mainly to "baby Doe" cases. There is an interview with a physician who works in the neonatal care unit at the U. of Kentucky (The largest facility of it's kind, I think). He talks about medical ethics in view of changing technology. There are also a few short articles (responses to the interview from various people) and a written statement from C. Everett Koop (Surgeon General). All these are very much worth reading for those interested. -- Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd