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- From: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
- Subject: Re: Fetal RTL defense, Part 2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.214407.15024@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
- Keywords: Caesarian, C-section, hysterotomy
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:44:07 GMT
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- In <1992Jul20.194420.2196@eco.twg.com> chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall) writes:
- >In <1992Jul20.162809.17212@spool.cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
- >>In <1992Jul20.075157.29185@cc.uow.edu.au> nyikos@cc.uow.edu.au (peter nyikos) writes:
- >>> CORRECTION: As one leading pro-choice feminist told the leader
- >>>of Libertarians for Life (also a woman and also a feminist):"You don't
- >>>understand. The whole point of abortion is to have a dead fetus."
-
- >>However, it also seems plausible to me that a woman should have the right
- >>not to become a parent if she doesn't want to (even if she were "only" to
- >>give the child up for adoption after its birth). I can see where this would
- >>weigh heavily on someone's mind. Thus, in some circumstances for some
- >>women, abortion after the point of viability would seem a necessary action.
-
- [...]
-
- >Well, first of all, I want to point out that Mr. Rawdon doesn't agree
- >with the argument in the paragraph I quoted. He argued against it in
- >the surrounding paragraphs, which I've deleted to save space. My
- >only complaint is with his use of the words "seems plausible".
-
- It actually would have been more accurate for me to have said, "seems
- plausible at first glance". I had thought that this would have been
- obvious since I did, after all, go on to argue against the validity of the
- position of terminating a viable fetus.
-
- --
- Michael Rawdon
- rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
- University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI
-
- The difference between the radical right and the radical left is that the
- radical right is scary and the radical left is silly.
-