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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:04:18 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- In article <markp.725732494@dragonfly.wri.com> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >In <30DEC92.15120932@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >
- >>Why do you feel pregnant women should not have a
- >>right to refuse to have their bodies used to support a fetus?
- >
- >A woman has the right to avoid conception. Once her voluntary actions
- >have created a human being and placed that human in a position of
- >dependency, she has obligated herself to act in accord with that human's
- >right to life.
-
- Why?
-
- I mean, not even mentioning that using various forms of birth control
- hardly makes her conception 'voluntary', or that some states in this
- union still don't have spousal rape laws, and therefore her sexual parti-
- cipation may well not have itself been voluntary....
-
- Why do *you* decide 'she has obligated herself' in the above manner, and
- why should we care?
-
- I have decided that she has obligated herself to make an intelligent decision
- that responsibly addresses her economic, social, financial and mental
- states, and that decision may well *very responsibly* be to abort.
-
- You've decided one thing, I another. Nobody died and made you king.
- You keep your decision making to yourself, and I'll be happy to keep mine
- to myself. Deal?
-
- Adrienne Regard
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