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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Parallel situations
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.195210.19908@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:52:10 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.045159.7499@cfctech.cfc.com> kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan02.044419.17590@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>In <1993Jan1.020450.218@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec30.202557.22636@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>Men have the same rights as do women regarding bodily autonomy. Since the
- >>>>fetus isn't growing in the man's body, though, this doesn't help him much.
- >>>
- >>>The woman who aborts, or chooses not to, also exercises an ECONOMIC right,
- >>>Larry. No male-choicer is asking for men to have the same BIOLOGICAL rights
- >>>as women; we're just asking for the same ECONOMIC rights that women currently
- >>>have thrown in as a bonus with their biological rights.
- >>
- >>What economic right is that? Are you saying that a woman has a *right* to
- >>not support her child?
- >
- >She has a right to not support her _potential_ child, by aborting it. No child,
- >no child support.
-
- This is the assertion I'm questioning - is this a right in and of itself,
- or simply a side effect of her absolute right to control the use of her body.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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