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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.130709.18810@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <C04w4u.CBs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan2.174743.27170@hemlock.cray.com> <markp.726100849@dragonfly.wri.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 13:07:09 CST
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- In article <markp.726100849@dragonfly.wri.com> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >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.
- >
- Like many other analogies, this one only holds as
- long as the woman's pain and risk, and the use of
- her resources, is ignored.
-
- >>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.
-
- We still have ways.
-
- >What do YOU propose to do about the fact that women live longer
- >than men?
-
- I'll encourage the men in my life to take care of themselves.
- And I'll make sure I stay acquainted with some younger ones. ;^)
-
- muriel
- standard disclaimer
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