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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line ""arbitrary""
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.041116.6449@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 04:11:16 GMT
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- In article <markp.726772250@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >In <1993Jan10.161604.3155@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>In article <markp.726627079@spider.wri.com> markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>>In <1993Jan9.075154.10306@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
- >>>>>In <30DEC92.17224243@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>>>>Once again, consent to sex, with or without using brains, does not equal
- >>>>>>consent to nine months of pregnancy.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>Having sex = Chancing the possibility of pregnancy. (Simple biological
- >>>>>fact.) Therfore: Consent to sex = consent to chance of pregnancy.
- >>>
- >>>>Driving = Chancing the possibility of dying. (Simple biological
- >>>>fact.) Therefore: Consent to driving = consent to dying.
- >>>
- >>>Try again, Ray. Simple substitution (sex -> driving, pregnancy -> death)
- >>>shows the parallel conclusion to be
- >>>
- >>>Consent to driving = consent to cahnce of death
- >>>
- >>>which is perfectly true.
- >>>
- >>And since you oppose the womans right to medical intervention to alter
- >>the outcome of her sex act, you will decline medical intervention to
- >>alter the outcome of your auto accident, correct?
- >
- >No -- because medical intervention into the effects of an auto
- >accident doesn't violate anyone else's right to life.
- >
- Then you are either a hypocrite for exempting yourself from the
- restrictions you place on others, or just too stupid to realise that
- you will need to prove a fetus is a person before your rationale for
- seeking medical treatment is valid.
- Are you going to attempt this feat?
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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