RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Abortion - was Missouri Young Republicans?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, F Vernon Green wrote:

> As long as there is abortion where someone can end the life claiming 
> that it is not "really a living thing" then how can we as a society have 
> a double standard that in the above cases a women that loses a child in 
> an accident can claim damages?

If you damage someone's property, they can claim damages even if the 
property was not living.


> The same thing could be said about women who smoke, drink, or do drugs 
> while pregnant. If the fetus is not a living thing, then we cannot hold 
> the woman responsible for anything she does that causes the death of the 
> fetus.

That's a troublesome issue.  I don't know what to say about it, but if a 
woman is to have an abortion, it doesn't matter what she's done to the 
fetus beforehand.  Maybe children should be able to sue their mothers for 
damages inflicted in utero!

Mike
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