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Re: FA – Babies
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Date: 
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:41:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

Well, it's rude to back out of the deal I suppose, but at the same time, if • you
can get a little cash out of it and send the kid to a better family, then why
not?

But how did the mother know it was a "better family"?

Pity for the US family involved (The Allens):

It is a shame when your past crimes haunt you.

“Mrs Allen was an unfit mother because she had an old conviction
for embezzlement.”

Fun aside, I have no way of knowing if the embezzlement charge is true or
relevant.

Well, I think it's better that it be up to the people involved, rather than
some strange bystander (you), to determine what a "better" family is.  Some
people think that a religious family would be an important ingrediant in "good"
or "better" but I don't.  So if I were to give/sell a baby, I wouldn't want
those other people applying their philosophy to my life.

You and I don't know what the embezzlement charge is or even if it is
completely made up.  But (I guess unlike you) I trust people to use their sense
and wisdom every day.

Chris



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  Re: FA – Babies
 
(...) or you? (...) Me neither. Some religious values are *good* though. (...) Should one have the right to buy and sell humans - is that not akin to slavery? (...) If one does not want a baby, once born, why should they be able to choose where it (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: FA – Babies
 
(...) But how did the mother know it was a "better family"? (...) Time will tell if everyone is a "winner". Even if they are - who is to say that the babies could not have gotten a better familiy if the system was better regulated? (...) Yes. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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