Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Fetuses, Rights, & Responsibilities Message-ID: <390@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:33:31 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.390 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:33:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:20:56 EDT References: <14936@mgwess.UUCP> <187@cylixd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 30 > Most pro-choicers would agree that, in some cases, it is wrong to abort > a fetus. Most pro-lifers agree that, in some cases, it is not wrong to > abort a fetus. Agreed. > Or, on the other end, suppose a woman finds is seven months pregnant > when she finds out she's a last-minute admission to law school. The > timing means she'd miss part of the first semester if she has the child, > which would kill her chances of success. But if she declines the > admission, she'll have to wait another year to start, and she isn't > guaranteed that she'll be admitted to the next year's class. Would > it be right for her to have an abortion? Remember, a seven-month > fetus could easily survive a premature delivery. Many pro-choicers > would think her abortion inadvisable (they might not like the word > "wrong"). Pro-lifers would think this one wrong, period. A situation like this one, or anyone of several thousands like or unlike it, simply show that the issue of abortion is not simple, that there are tough choices to make. To my mind, and maybe I am not one of "most pro-choicers" (though I think I am,) that choices are so difficult to make is the very reason why there should be as many choices as possible. It is certainly not the business of society, through its agent the government, to try and anticipate all possible situations and prescribe the approved action. The name "pro-choice" is particularly accurate. I believe that the individual most affected should be the one to make whatever decision *she* decides is best for *her* and that *no one* has the right to question her decision, let alone to judge her for it. Marcel Simon