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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:14:47 GMT
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- In <1ivbntINNlrr@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
-
- >>In talk.abortion, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>>>In talk.abortion, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>>However, some pro-choicers in t.a have claimed that the z/e/f's humanity
- >>>is irrelevant -- that human or not, the z/e/f can ethically be evicted
- >>>by the mother from her womb. Do we agree that this pro-choice argument
- >>>is wrong -- that the z/e/f's right to life is the crucial point?
-
- >No. Because if the z/e/f were granted a right to life, that does not
- >necessarily presuppose it can accept it's right to life at a COST to another
- >human being.
-
- >If you want to do such a silly thing, grant *me* the 'right to life'.
-
- I don't need to. As a reasoning, free-willed individual, you already
- possess the right to life.
-
- >And
- >then see if it's OK within the realm of that 'right to life' for me to demand
- >your liver.
-
- Only if I have, through voluntary actions, made your life dependent on
- my liver.
-
- >Adrienne Regard
-
- Mark Pundurs
-