The story is told of a mother who stepped into a doctor's office while carrying a one-year-old baby.  Seating herself near her family physician, she said, "Doctor, I want you to help me out of trouble.  My baby is only one year old, and I have conceived again.  Surely, you understand why I do not want to have children so close together." "What do you want me to do?" asked the physician. "Oh, anything to get rid of it for me," she replied. After thinking for a moment the doctor said, "I can suggest a better method of helping you.  If you object to having two children so near together, the best way would be to kill 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." As the doctor finished speaking, he reached for a knife and asked the mother to lay the baby out on her lap and turn her head the other way.  At that moment, the woman almost fainted away, before rising up from her chair screaming, "MURDERER!!" A few words of explanation from the doctor soon convinced the young mother that his offer to kill the one-year-old was no worse than her request for the destruction of her unborn child.  Either way, it would be murder.  The only difference would be in the age of the child.