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- From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
- Subject: Re: The world according to propeller-boy - part 1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.211316.19577@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Keywords: Chaney does hypocrisy
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:13:16 GMT
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- chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes ...
- >## Pro-Choice means pro-adult/child sex!
-
- <3691@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- > I think that I know the source of Chaney's new .sig lie.
- > I think that some adult who supports legal abortion said
- > "fuck you" to him.
-
- Isn't he referring to a court case in the news a few days ago?
- I just scanned the article in the paper, so don't put too much
- faith in my memory. There was a statutory rape case somewhere
- where there was no question that the girl had consented. I think
- also that the girl didn't want to prosecute. It was the state
- that was carrying out the prosecution. (This is where I don't
- trust my memory; how could the state make a case without an
- incriminating witness?)
-
- Anyhow, the judge ruled that court precedent in abortion cases
- made it clear that teenage girls held the same right to privacy
- against state interference in their personal lives as adult
- women. Thus the state could not make illegal her private sexual
- choices, and could not prosecute the statutory rape.
-
- As I say, my memory is very suspect on this one. I'll see if I can
- dig the paper out of the recycle stack tonight and maybe post
- the article next week.
-
- | Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis |
- | "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they |
- | please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we |
- |___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
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