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Old 06-24-2008, 10:19 PM
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I regularly prescribe chloroquine and quinine for malaria and both are known to cause abortion. However, malaria is more likely to cause abortion than the pills in question. Therefore in prescribing these, I'm actually, over many patients, preventing abortion.
Do your patients contract malaria so you can prescribe chloroquine and quinine in order to terminate their pregnancies? If not, you are treating an illness and not murdering a child.

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It depends on when human life begins, whether these things involve abortion. That is a matter of opinion.
Did you really just say that?
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