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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity,misc.legal,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Embryos as Property?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 08:44:40 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <1992Dec16.155842.17381@zooid.guild.org> <lairdb.724566025@crash.cts.com> <nyikos.724958698@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <lairdb.725057848@crash.cts.com>
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- Keywords: Property rights, abortion, compensation for involuntary loss...?
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- lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) writes:
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- >In <nyikos.724958698@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>The claim that the embryo is a body part of its mother, besides being
- >>pseudoscience of the lowest order, is just as offensive to me as the
- >>notion that it is property.
-
- >Whether or not is is "pseudo-science" would appear to be a matter of
- >opinion; whether or not it is offensive to you has absolutely nothing to
- >do with the law. Many things in the law, many decisions in individual
- >cases, many actions by governments are offensive to me. Nonetheless
- >I can engage in rational discussion of them without trying to squelch
- >the discussion on the grounds that it's `icky'.
-
- It is not being squelched on the grounds that it's "icky". It's being
- squelched on the grounds that it is patently false. An embryo is
- *not* a body part of the mother.
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- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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