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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Questions for Pro-Choice advocates
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:08:55 -0800
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- In article <C0pvs7.LnF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> updike@bug.cat.com (Michael Updike) writes:
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- >This is a very interesting point. However, if a pre-born isn't fundamentally
- >different from a newborn then I think society would be within its rights
- >to extend legal protection to the pre-born even at the cost of denying certain
- >rights to the mother (who is already legally recognized is a member of this
- >society and subject to its laws).
-
- Why? Upon what grounds would society remove the recognized rights of full
- members of society in order to grant rights to those fetuses who are only
- *questionably* members?
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-
- BTW, "society" doesn't have 'rights'. INDIVIDUALs have rights.
-
- >Moral beliefs
- >that do not involve competing rights are almost always wrong and doomed to
- >failure when made into law.
-
- Scuse please, but I don't understand this. Are you saying that morals that
- are so universal and straightforward that everybody agrees with them are
- 'doomed to failure' just because they don't have some element of conflict?
-
- Adrienne Regard
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