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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 5
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 08:50:59 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- References: <1992Nov17.064218.17638@panix.com> <32781@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.221107.23870@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.221107.23870@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <32781@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >
- >>A drunk driver is not forced to donate tissue, blood, or organs to
- >>save the life of a victim of his bad judgment.
- >If the drunk driver were the only possible source of those things, the
- >victim would certainly die if the donation weren't made, and the
- >burden to the drunk driver would b commensurate with the burden to a
- >woman of carrying a pregnancy to term, would you say it would be in
- >principle unjust to force him to make the donation? If so, why?
-
-
- Not to get sidetracked into hyptheticals or anything, but you *do*
- recognise, don't you, that RIGHT NOW, if I were involved in an auto
- accident...
- indeed, if I, and I alone CAUSED an auto accident....
- that, just for the sake of argument, killed me and maimed another person,
- the medical community STILL couldn't seize organs out of my dead body
- to save the life of the other person. Even if I were a perfect tissue
- match. They would need either my CONSENT (via an organ donor card) or
- the consent of my next-of-kin.
-
- Even DEAD, society cannot violate my body against my will.
-
- Do you think that should be changed?
-
- Adrienne Regard
-