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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1028.1 | Where life begins is questionable... | TALLIS::DARCY | | Sat Mar 28 1992 14:49 | 7 |
| The problem with that argument is that nobody is protecting the
unborn baby's rights. It's very possible for children to be born
several months premature and yet still live. Would you want to
abort a pregnancy in the third trimester? The issue of abortion
is just not as clear cut as that.
/George
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| 1028.2 | what IS life? | SUPER::DENISE | she stiffed me out of $20.!!! | Mon Mar 30 1992 12:28 | 24 |
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this brings up an interesting occurence....
in philadelphia about a week and a half ago the
child of a couple was born withough a brain...
just a stump at the top of the spinal column, and
no skull.
there was enough brain stimulation to have the baby's
heartbeat continue for an undertermined period of time
without assistance.
the parents petitioned the court to allow them to have
the baby be available for organ donorship. they weren't
permitted as the baby was recording a heartbeat and had
been breathing with assistance. doctor's testified on behalf
of the parents saying that the child was doomed to die soon
and it was only in a vegetative state for an undetermined
period of time. the respirator was taken away (court's decision)
but now due to medical reasons (atrophy??? it wasn't specified)
the organs are not going to be useful to anybody.
the question that remains is: the parents knew about the extent
of deformity in the third trimester stage.... could they have opted
for a third trimester abortion, knowing in advance that the baby
would be refused as a organ donor (as it happened)?
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| 1028.3 | | TIMBER::DENISE | she stiffed me out of $20.! | Thu Apr 02 1992 12:42 | 4 |
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re .2
small correction.... it was in florida, not philadelphia.
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