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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.063657.16609@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <C01JMJ.Jt@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <30DEC92.15120932@vax.clarku.edu> <markp.725732494@dragonfly.wri.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:36:57 GMT
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- 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.
-
- But who gets to decide exactly what that "accord[ance]" entails? You?
-
- As far as I'm concerned, a woman and her doctor "act in accordance with the
- z/e/f's right to life" as long as they
-
- a) kill the z/e/f ONLY as a "mercy killing", i.e. when it is
- pre-viable, and would die anyway shortly after removal, or if it
- is severely deformed, or if comes down to a choice between the
- mother's life and that of the z/e/f, or if the z/e/f was the
- product of rape or incest
-
- or
-
- b) act in accordance with the value placed on the fetus by a
- popular concensus of opinion
-
- (Exceptions to the above to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
-
- Now, you may have a different view of what actions are "in accord[ance]
- with that human's right to life". Why is your view any more valid than
- mine, though?
-
- - Kevin
-