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- From: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Abortion and Infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.011013.17839@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:10:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.095627.27259@hemlock.cray.com>
- mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
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- >dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >> Are you offering a new definition of "autonomous"?
-
- > I have done so in another thread.
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- I haven't seen your definition of "autonomous", can you repeat it?
-
- > But it should be obvious
- > that a nursing infant can survive without any one particular
- > host.
-
- A viable fetus can be removed from the woman alive and it'll
- become a nursing infant. Is a viable fetus autonomous?
-
- > Your situation is contrived to the point of absurdity,
- > because if there were no other food around, the woman would
- > soon have no milk to offer, and both would die.
-
- I didn't say that there was no other food around. If a woman
- and an infant were isolated from civilization and the woman
- could only offer her breast milk to the infant, then the
- infant would not be "autonomous" by Mr. Tjoa's definition.
-
- And my situation is no more contrived than the "famous violinist"
- scenario.
-
-
- > It amazes me that you can come up with so many reasons for
- > denying physical autonomy to newborns. Why do you do this?
-
- I'm not intent on denying physical autonomy to newborn infants.
- I'm trying to force pro-choicers to provide consistent reasoning
- for their arguments.
-
- >muriel
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