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- From: markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: consenting to sex is surrendering rights? (was: Blackmun calls...)
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- References: <C0301K.5nL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <ueguljc@zola.esd.sgi.com> <markp.726160675@dragonfly.wri.com> <1993Jan8.215544.3567@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:57:07 GMT
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- In <1993Jan8.215544.3567@nwnexus.WA.COM> jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle) writes:
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- >In article <markp.726160675@dragonfly.wri.com> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>In <ueguljc@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
- >>
- >>>---
- >>>vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- >>>|Ms. Smith consented to have sex. In so doing she has surrendered her rights
- >>>|to bodily integrity and personal autonomy. [...]
- >>
- >>>Oh, really? Can you show me the contract she signed when she had
- >>>sex? Can you show me exactly where the US Constitution says that
- >>>people who have sex give up these rights?
- >>
- >>It's not a contractual or a Constitutional, but a biological consequence.
- >>
- >Hey! I resent the fact that you called my two kids "biological
- >consequences"! I'd suspect that many folks here would be upset at
- >your dismissal of children in that manner.
-
- I've got a three-year-old "biological consequence" -- best one in the
- world!
-
- >Seriously, do you believe that we are all just slaves to our bodies, and
- >shouldn't avail ourselves to medical, psychological, and other help when
- >we feel it is necessary?
-
- Of course we should -- but we shouldn't violate anyone else's right
- to life in the process.
-
- >Oh, I get it. Only fertile women have biological consequences.
-
- Oh, abandon this straw man, already!
-