Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!sophie From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disposition of Aborted Fetuses Message-ID: <1220@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:15:50 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1220 Posted: Mon Jul 8 13:15:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 14:25:31 EDT References: <855@bunker.UUCP> <863@bunker.UUCP> <160@idsvax.UUCP> <884@bunker.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 31 > > "what should be done with the results of miscarriages?" > > > > You cannot give the same reply to this since there is no way miscarriages > > can completely be prevented. So whatever your response is to that question > > it applies to dead fetuses in general, no matter how they died. > > > Sophie Quigley > > First, I do not concede that my response applies to dead fetuses in > general. Why not? > > Whatever is done with the "results of miscarriage" should be done for > the primary purpose of assuaging the grief of the mother (and anyone > else hurt by the loss). Perhaps some kind of memorial service would > be in order; perhaps even a burial, if that's what the aggrieved desire. > (Someone told me that, at least in some places, it is not legal to > have a funeral for an aborted fetus -- I wonder why?) > > Gary Samuelson Well, it seems to me that the best answer in the case of abortions would be to do anything that will assuage the grief of the mother (it is not because the mother chooses to abort that she does not experience grief). I believe that it is not legal to have funerals for miscarried fetuses either. Maybe it should be. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** -- Sophie Quigley {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie