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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: consenting to sex is surrendering rights? (was: Blackmun calls...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.040443.15758@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <C0301K.5nL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <ueguljc@zola.esd.sgi.com> <markp.726160675@dragonfly.wri.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:04:43 GMT
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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.
-
- And a destroyed z/e/f is the "biological consequence" of her wish to abort,
- unless the government intervenes. Upon what rational basis does the government
- get to dictate what "biological consequences" are permitted, and which
- forbidden?
-
- - Kevin
-