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- From: "david meadows" <david.meadows@canrem.com>
- Subject: fetal rights of inheritan
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.4673.12532@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "david meadows" <david.meadows@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: alt
- Date: 23 Jan 93 13:01:17 EST
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- TF>>If so, that child must have a legal personality in the womb, no?
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- TF>"Legal personality in the womb" is neither equivalent to nor does it
- >inextricably lead to "abortion is always illegal." An "unborn widow"
- >that has never been nor never will be conceived is also a "legal
- >personality" in similar circumstances, but I doubt we'd want a legal
- >regime that worries more about fertile octagenarians than it already
- >does.
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-
- So you agree that there is such a thing as legal personality in the
- womb. If that is the case, that legal personality is protected by
- whatever rights he or she would have outside the womb and so neither
- you, nor the mother, nor anyone else has a right to deprive it of life
- without due process of law.
-
- What the heck is an `unborn widow' ... I was unaware that a foetus
- might marry in utero ...
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-
- Continuing to wonder ...
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- David Meadows
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