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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
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- Subject: Re: control
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:12:20 GMT
- References: <lmc1u2INNij5@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <1k6bmsINNg34@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1993Jan27.162005.22316@cs.yale.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.162005.22316@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >In article <1k6bmsINNg34@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>I am vitally concerned that you would reduce me to a subclass of both
- >>citizen and human being.
- >This seems to me to be precisely as valid as claiming that
- >requiring me to register for the draft reduces men to less-than-people.
- >Certainly, I would say that if your argument wrt abortion has force,
- >then conscription reduces men to less than people.
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- I would agree.
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- I think conscription *does* reduce men to less than people.
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- I would point out, though, that there is a standing constitution amendment
- that permits it, though, which would need to be overcome to remove the
- possibility of conscription. Whereas there is no such amendment WRT fetal
- life. And there may be an amendment soon WRT reproductive choice.
-
- So the practical problems related to the two situations aren't the same.
-
- Adrienne Regard
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