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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: control
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:22:44 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- In article <lm1b3eINNebn@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
- >In article <1jh7udINNh25@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>In article <llne4oINN99f@kara-kum.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
- >>>>If your nose is inside the womans body, she should be free to punch it
- >>>>as much as she wants.
- ...Okay, I'll play along with that. But what if I had no choice whether my
- ...nose was there or not?
-
- >>Okay, let's all play along with that.
- >>What *if* you had no choice, but your nose was in fact inside the woman's
- >>body.
- >>Do you *seriously* propose she should just have to put up with your nose?
-
- >Good point. Normally I wouldn't. And the analogy breaks down around here,
- >since in this case it's not just a nose, but an entire life (I note that
- >"life" is arguable) inside. And assuming it is a human life, which by
- >sheer misfortune found itself inside a womb, it would be most unfair for
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >him or her to have to die in deference to another human life's right to
- >privacy.
-
- Why?
-
- Why would that be 'most unfair'? Why would it not be MORE unfair to require
- a living, breathing, sentient human woman decide whether or not to harbor
- these people within her body if *she* chose to do so, or not? Why does she
- suddenly disappear from this picture when it is *her* body that is having
- to do the work?
-
- >Were it up to me, I
- >would look for another alternative.
-
- Can you tell us what other alternatives occur to you?
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-