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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
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 23:14:42 1985
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>> 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