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   From: rrufiange@cfl.rr.com   
      
   "Moorehead Johnson"  wrote in message   
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   > > I feel that it is entirely up to the woman.   
   > > I'd rather we as society   
   > > weren't sending the message to people that abortion is another means of   
   > > birth control, but I suppose putting morals into their heads will   
   suffice.   
   > > The woman has the right to abort her child, up until a point.  That's   
   the   
   > > law.  After a certain formative period, the fetus is considered a human   
   life   
   > > as recognized nation-wide by law.   
   >   
   > Not true - late term abortions are perfectly legal in this country, so   
   > long as the doctor deems it necessary for "medical reasons".  What   
   > medical reasons you ask?  Well, if the woman is having "mental stress"   
   > over the impending birth of the child, that would be reason enough to   
   > abort it. The congressional hearings over partial birth abortions   
   > included testimony from abortion doctors who said that the vast   
   > majority of the late term abortions they performed where on perfectly   
   > healthy women and perfectly healthy fetuses.   
      
   Didn't Bush sign into law a ban on such abortions recently?  Partial-birth   
   abortions I believe was the term used.   
      
   > > Afew weeks is plenty of time for the   
   > > mother to consider whether or not having the child is the best choice,   
   or   
   > > not.  However, people do make mistakes.  It only takes a moment to   
   become   
   > > pregnant.  Merely conceiving the child is not sufficient grounds to   
   insist   
   > > she should become a mother.  It is her choice.   
   >   
   > And I think, as do a good percentage of others, that merely not   
   > wanting to have to raise a child is not sufficient grounds to kill it.   
   >  To me, it comes down to this - we don't KNOW for sure when a fetus   
   > becomes a "human being"...so, when in doubt about whether or not it is   
   > a human being...do we kill it, or err on the side of life?  The   
   > proborts say kill it.  Obviously, I disagree.   
      
   Well, we can always do what I do when someone asks me a question I don't   
   know the answer to, shut up, and let them ask the next guy, or admit our   
   lack of expertise, and assume any answer we give to be merely conjectural.   
      
   If we don't know one way or the other, we shouldn't be writing laws about   
   such.   
      
   We already have a legal definition in the books, when we can terminate the   
   fetus, and when we cannot.   
      
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