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Re: Boy sues (and wins) for NOT being aborted
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Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:03:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Posted with no comment other than "wow", Here's one for the "can it be true?
> file":
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1028000/1028648.stm
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> quoting the lead of the article:
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> > A severely disabled French boy has won a landmark case against medical >authorities for allowing him to be born rather than aborted.
Duh! ** BLATENTLY NOT TRUE **
Read the article.
The boy didn't bring the suit, his parents did on behalf of the boy (and
maybe not even that)
What we know from the article is that his parents sued because they could
have aborted if they had had proper medical information, which their doctors
didn't provide.
This is simply a medical mal-practice suit which the media have hyped up
into "a person who wished he could have been aborted"
The funny thing about life is that if you don't now it any other way, you
accept it the way it is. I'm certain that even though this boy is not able
to communicate with us the way a 'normal' person is, he is still alive and
would like his existance to continue. We 'normal' folks like to play God
and judge the 'value' of that human life (and sometimes end it), while we
simultaneously choose to save all sorts of less intelligent animals and plants.
The media is the problem here, not the boy.
-Jon
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| (...) That is a horrifically presumptuous and naive statement. If your claim were true, there would be no history of euthanasia, nor suicide, nor assisted suicide. (...) Again, quite naive. The issue is not simply the 'value' of human life but (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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