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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disposition of Aborted Fetuses
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 17:21:23 EDT
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> > > What should be done with an aborted fetus?
> > 
> > "When did you stop beating your wife?"  I think the fetus should
> > be allowed to live; it should not be aborted in the first place.
> > But in many cases of abortion, even those fetuses who manage to survive
> > the abortion are not allowed to live.
> > 
> OK, then, let's rephrase the question:
> "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
> {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie

First, I do not concede that my response applies to dead fetuses in
general.

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
ittvax!bunker!garys