Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-spice.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-spice!tdn From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Fetuses, Rights, & Responsibilities Message-ID: <430@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 23:14:42 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-s.430 Posted: Tue Aug 20 23:14:42 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:52:38 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17 >> I don't see how killing a fetus can be construed as being for the fetus's >> own good. Quite the contrary. >> >> -- Thomas Newton > Tom, that depends upon the environment the fetus, as a human, would > be exposed to. > > - todd jones First, I don't accept your implicit assumption that the fetus is not human. But addressing the main point: who are you to tell someone else whether or not their life is and will continue to be worth living? Most people who have a bad childhood do not kill themselves; doesn't this indicate anything to you? -- Thomas.Newton Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA