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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: consenting to sex is surrendering rights? (was: Blackmun calls...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.041537.6616@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 04:15:37 GMT
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- In article <markp.726773008@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >In <1993Jan11.022306.14508@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >
- >>markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
- >>> jbrindle@halcyon.com (Jennifer Brindle) writes:
- >>>>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.
- >
- >>In case you haven't been paying attention, terminating a pregnancy
- >>does not necessarily imply violating anyone's right to life.
- >
- >I've been deliberately avoiding the question of the z/e/f's right to
- >life, as it's logically independent of the "womb eviction" argument.
- >(at least, so say many pro-choicers on t.a, who have rejected
- >the right-to-life issue as irrelevant.) But I have been paying
- >attention -- and have yet to be shown that the right to life doesn't
- >begin at conception.
- >
- Nor have you shown any reason to believe that the fetus has any such
- right. After all, sperm and ovum are as alive, and as human, as a
- z/e/f, but you don't seem to care that hundreds of thousands, even
- millions are killed by various contraceptives.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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