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- From: markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line ""arbitrary""
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- References: <1993Jan7.154830.5314@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan7.212033.16294@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <markp.726527365@spider.wri.com> <1993Jan9.075521.10717@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:54:18 GMT
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- In <1993Jan9.075521.10717@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
- >>A. You certainly DO open yourself to the possibility of attack by
- >> walking down dark city streets; but
- >>B. This in no way weakens your right to life, or your consequent
- >> right to self-defense.
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- >A. You certainly DO open yourself to the possibility of pregnancy by
- > having sex (if you're a woman, of course); but
- >B. This in no way weakens your right to your body, or your consequent
- > right to an abortion.
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- Try again, Ray. The parallel conclusion here is
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- B. This in no way weakens your right to life, or your consequent right to
- an abortion if your life is imminently imperiled.
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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
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