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- From: regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Who is this reference?
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 08:43:40 -0700
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- In article <1992Jul16.064242.14084@cc.uow.edu.au> nyikos@cc.uow.edu.au (peter nyikos) writes:
- >regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >
- >>>> Giving the fetus the right to inhabit a woman's body against her will is
- >>>> giving it a right over and above ANY rights any other humanbeing on this
- >>>> planet has. NO OTHER HUMAN BEING has the right to inhabit a woman's body
- >>>> against her will, yet you would suggest the fetus should have that
- >>>> right? I think that's bogus.
- >
- >Where is this "NO OTHER...will" right enshrined?
- >Or is it your position that it OUGHT to be
- >a right? If so, your case is parallel to that of the prolifers who say
- >the fetus OUGHT to have the right to life. Why should your OUGHT take
- >precedence over their OUGHT?
-
- I believe this is what might be called the 'penumbra' of the Bill of Rights.
- Frankly, I don't know what's been invoked in cases (if there have ever been
- cases) where one person wanted to seize the kidney of another person; maybe
- it'd be the 'right' to privacy, or illegal search and seizure, I don't know.
- The 9th and 10th amendments will do fine, thanks. We are presumed to have
- control over our own bodies in the precident of many laws.
-
- However, I'd like to ask: are you arguing the point? Do you think that
- other human beings have the right, or should have the right to inhabit
- a woman's body against her will?
-
- Do you intend to argue that other people SHOULD be entitled to inhabit a
- woman's body against her will?
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-