Re: Wrongful Death Suit Allowed Over Embryo
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Feb 24 06:28:14 2005
Joanne
so then abortion should be ok at any gestational age as long as the mom
thinks it's morally ok?
art
At Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
>
>To me it isn't that it is "counter-intiutive" -- it is inherent that at
>that jucture between life and death there are many cultural - religious
>- moral interpretations and values.
>
>Just as in the ICU -- there is one person who decides that no more
>treatments will be done and stopping treatment is what he or she wants -
>and in the bed next door the patient with exactly the same situation
>wants everything done to save him or her -- be it only for one or two
>more days (or weeks or months).
>
>The debates over the right answers at 16 weeks - or 20 weeks gestation -
>or 80 years and 2 weeks of life really have some of the same quandries.
>
>Which is why I fervently believe that it has to be left up to the
>individual to make that moral judgement as an individual - not for the
>society to make a judgement that everyone in a particular situation has
>to obey.
>
>Joanne
>
>At Wed, 23 Feb 2005, art fougner, md wrote:
>>
>>it does seem counter-intuitive, however, that on one floor physicians
>>are terminating the same life that on another floor other physicians are
>>laboring mightily to save. just a thought ...
>>
>>art
>>
>>At Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>>>
>>>And makes abortion after 20 weeks illegal.
>>>
>>>R. Daniel Braun, MD
>>>
>>>"If everyone likes you, you're doing something wrong."
>>>
>>>Kinky Friedman
>>>
>>>I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more
>>>dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
>>>
>>>Andy Rooney
>>>
>--
>Joanne Bulley, MD
>Keene, NH, USA
>
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
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