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- From: jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.210411.2377@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <C04w4u.CBs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan2.174743.27170@hemlock.cray.com> <markp.726100849@dragonfly.wri.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:04:11 GMT
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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.
-
- You find me one, just one AIDS patient residing within a healthy
- woman's body and THEN we'll have an analogy.
-
- >>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?
- >
- Well, we could kill everyone off at 65. Then we wouldn't have to
- pay out all that social security, our health care costs would go
- down and Florida wouldn't have a big probmlem with agine retirees.
-
- Except me, of course!
-
- Jennifer
-