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- From: markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
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- References: <C01JMJ.Jt@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <30DEC92.15120932@vax.clarku.edu> <markp.725732494@dragonfly.wri.com> <1993Jan8.205621.2142@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:43:10 GMT
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- In <1993Jan8.205621.2142@nwnexus.WA.COM> jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle) writes:
-
- >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?
- >How?
-
- Analogy: If I altered your biochemistry to make your survival dependent
- on transfusions of my blood (nobody else's would do), then I would be
- responsible for providing such transfusions.
- General principle: One who creates a human dependency incurs an
- obligation to meet that dependency.
-
- >Says who?
- >And why should I take that person's reasoning as my own?
- >Just asking some fundamental questions here, as I don't agree that a woman
- >has "obligated herself" to anything except having a good time in bed by
- >having sex! Please tell me in what rule book this "obligation" is written.
- >And who wrote it and why.
-
- I hope the above also answers these questions. (Otherwise, they're
- expressions of ethical relativism, which is incompatible with ethical
- debate.)
-
- >Jennifer
-
- Mark Pundurs
-