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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: <markp.725732494@dragonfly.wri.com> <1ifvijINNpia@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <C0KC4u.13L@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1993Jan9.070656.5451@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:45:43 GMT
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- In <1993Jan9.070656.5451@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil writes ...
- >> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>>> 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.
- >>
- >>I am totally confused by your use of the word "voluntary". What does the
- >>intent of the parents have to do with the humans right to life?
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- >What does a human's right to life have to do with pregnancy? OK, so
- >the fetus has a right to life. That does not, however, also imply it
- >has the right to use anyone else's body while exercising that right.
-
- Exactly the argument defused by my original statement.
-
- >Similarly, while I may have a right to life, that does not mean that I
- >am therefore justified in stealing from you in order to support
- >myself.
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- >Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- >ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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- Mark Pundurs
-