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- From: markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:40:49 GMT
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- In <1993Jan2.174743.27170@hemlock.cray.com> mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
-
- >I think a woman's life is worth more than that of a
- >conceptus. 2/3 of all zygotes will never make it to term
- >because of natural factors.
-
- ANALOGY:
- I think a healthy person's life is worth more than that of an
- AIDS patient. Almost 100% of AIDS patients will never make it
- for more than a few years.
-
- >Do you think only women have equal worth with embryoes, or
- >do you ascribe this valuation to men as well?
-
- The latter.
-
- >You seem to think that a woman incurs the responsibility
- >to suffer _any_ amount of physical damage, up to, and possibly
- >including _death_ (since we'd sacrifice all the women whose
- >deaths could not be predicted with certainty) as a result
- >of consensual sex. What equivalent _physical_ responsibility
- >do you propose for a man who has sex?
-
- The woman's greater physical responsibility is a fact of biology.
- What do YOU propose to do about the fact that women live longer
- than men?
-
- >muriel
- >standard disclaimer
-
- Mark Pundurs
-