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- From: markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
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- References: <1992Dec29.235055.18645@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <markp.725731241@dragonfly.wri.com> <1993Jan7.224938.4424@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:22:49 GMT
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- In <1993Jan7.224938.4424@nwnexus.WA.COM> jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle) writes:
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- >In article <markp.725731241@dragonfly.wri.com> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>
- >>In cases of rape or incest, AND ONLY IN THOSE CASES, the woman was denied her
- >>right to choose avoiding pregnancy. As for probable death to the mother: when
- >>her right to life is balanced against the baby's right to life, it's her
- >>choice. (The most fundamental right being life, she may not choose her
- >>economic or career security over the baby's right to life.)
- >>
- >>
- >>Mark Pundurs
-
-
- >In other words, the woman got caught doing something she shouldn't have, and we
- >need to punish her for it. If she wasn't "doin it" voluntarily, then there's
- >no need for punishment.
-
- Straw man alert! That's not my argument.
-
- >If there was an effecient, effective, low-cost alternative to abortion, like
- >some form of embryonic transfer, would you still be against it, if the woman
- >chose it?
-
- No.
-
- >Or does your punishment theory extend that far?
-
- I have no "punishment theory."
-
- >Face it, anyone who advocates "they woman had no choice in rape or incest"
- >has absolutely no grounds arguing the "fetus is a person" theory
-
- Wrong -- as my initial argument showed.
-
- >ond in
- >only outfor revenge against the perfectly willing woman. No two ways around
- >it. The argument is so thinly veiled it's pathetic.
-
- Please demonstrate (you haven't yet).
-
- >Jennifer
-
- Mark Pundurs
-