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   Laws are sometimes enacted to deal with situations that occur very rarely.   
   The international laws against holocausts come to mind.   
      
      
   "Ivan Gowch"  wrote in message   
   news:0jpetvgdn5hdlgdp6kgvagjr428svve0kp@4ax.com...   
   > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:43:53 GMT,  wrote:   
   >   
   > ==>Thanks. So, if I understand you correctly, you believe that the mother   
   still   
   > ==>could do anything she wants with the neonate   
   > ==>but that, in your view, some things she might do would be wrong. Is   
   that   
   > ==>correct?   
   >   
   > That's a tough one.  I would have a lot of trouble   
   > with a woman who gave birth to a live, healthy,   
   > viable baby, but who then ordered the delivering   
   > doctor to kill him/her before the umbilical cord   
   > was severed.   
   >   
   > I suspect that there ae damn few women   
   > who would even contemplate such a thing, and few   
   > doctors who would comply.   
   >   
   > And since this scenario is virtually unheard of, I   
   > don't think we need waste much debating time on it.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > --   
   > Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   > than the birth of one more unwanted child.   
      
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