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WHICH ONE?
The mother strode into the doctor's office carrying a bright and beautiful baby. Seating herself near her family physician, she said, “Doctor, I want you to help me with my problem. My baby is only one year old and I’ve conceived again. I don’t want to have children so close together.”
“Ah,” he said, “and what would you have me do?”
“Oh, anything to get rid of it for me,” she replied,
After thinking seriously for a moment, the doctor said, “I think I can suggest a better method of helping you out. If you object to two children so near together, the best way should be to kill the one on your lap and let the other one be born. It is easy to get at the one on your lap and it makes no difference to me which one I kill. Besides, it might be dangerous for you if I undertook to kill the younger one.”
With that, the doctor reached for a knife and casually asked the mother to lay the baby on her lap and turn her head.
Not surprisingly, the woman almost fainted as she leaped from the chair and screamed, “Murder!”
A few words of explanation from the doctor soon convinced the woman that his offer to commit murder was no worse than her request for him to destroy her unborn child. In either case, the act would be murder — the only difference would be the age of the victim.
Reprinted from “The Evangelist”
