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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Abortion and Infanticide
- Message-ID: <_hjm1pn.ray@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 07:02:25 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services
- References: <1992Jul22.132341.13407@menudo.uh.edu> <85fmkv_.ray@netcom.com> <1992Jul24.154520.6960@ncsu.edu>
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- dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes ...
- >In article <85fmkv_.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >> The key (and embarrasingly obvious) difference is that, like any other
- >> person, an infant doesn not depend on any _one_ person for its survival;
- >> care can (and often is) transferred to other people.
- >
- >But if a newborn infant can't be transferred to another person, then
- >the infant would not be "autonomous" by the original definition, and
- >the infant would not enjoy the right to bodily autonomy. People could
- >kill infants by placing them in situations where only one person
- >could care for them.
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- You're really reaching on this one. Give it up.
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- Ray Fischer
- rfischer@cs.stanford.edu
- ray@netcom.com
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