Re: Wrongful Death Suit Allowed Over Embryo
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Feb 24 07:47:03 2005
Rich
abortion at any gestational age ( say 32 wks) can be equated with
smoking a joint?
art
At Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
>
>As should smoking marijuana and other vices, as long as it does not
>interfere with others. Basic existentialism: do what you want, as long as
>you don't interfere with others doing what they want to do
>
>--
>Richard Chudacoff, MD
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of art
>fougner, md
>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:30 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: Wrongful Death Suit Allowed Over Embryo
>
>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
>
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
