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- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:06:43 GMT
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- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
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-
- >The following are exchanges between me and Adrienne Regard.
-
- >>>>>>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?
-
- >You know, I just played this game with a friend of mine this morning. He's
- >pro-life, and so I offered him a sample of the pro-choice arguments I found
- >here. His views are perhaps a tad extreme; he doesn't believe the fetus is
- >even a part of the mother, on the grounds that it's something the mother's
- >body would reject if not for the placental wall surrounding it. Therefore,
- >the mother's rights don't extend into the womb, period.
-
- >I replied that she _still_ has to carry some umpty-ump pounds of water
- >around for nine months, and take part in a process with a considerably
- >high chance of developing medical complications, and so part of her body
- >or not, she's definitely involved. He replied that "it's possible to have
- >it taken out". I replied that the cost would be prohibitive. He said it
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Just how much is a human life worth? Liver transplants cost 100K and more.
-
- >didn't matter in this case, and I realized once again how hard it is to
- >change someone's mind on an issue like this.
-
- >In conclusion, yes, her body is having to do the work. And I will most
- >certainly agree that her rights will be infringed were the government to
- >decide in favor of the unborn child. I did not mean to imply otherwise,
- >and I apologize if my post appeared to treat women as "fetal containers".
-
- >>>Were it up to me, I
- >>>would look for another alternative.
- >>
- >>Can you tell us what other alternatives occur to you?
-
- >I admit, not a whole lot. Embryo transplants. "Metal mommas". Better
- >contraceptives. I fear our medical expert, Mark Cochran (who _still_
- >won't tell me what T.S.A.K.C. stands for), could knock most of my ideas
- >down as impractical, since he could argue circles around me when it
- >comes to the medical profession.
-
- Don't give Mr. Cochran so much credit. There are plenty of other
- medically educated people who think abortion is disgusting and
- immoral.
-
- >But then, I'm just one person, and a CS major at that. There _are_
- >other people working on "another alternative", people who are more
- >qualified than I. To be truthful, I subscribed to this newsgroup mainly
- >to sharpen my debating skills, but maybe I ought to look in this a bit
- >more. I encourage you all to do the same.
-
- >It seems the majority of the population sees this is a problem with only
- >two solutions: either the fetus gets its life, or the mother gets her
- >privacy. But everything I've ever experienced - every book I've read,
- >every show I've watched, every lesson I've ever learned from my parents -
- >forces me to come to the conclusion that if you work hard enough on it,
- >you can have your cake, eat it, and lose weight in the process. :)
-
- >In other words, I refuse to think of this as "Mother vs. Fetus in the
- >Battle of the Century", one must win, the other must lose. I'd rather
- >see both win.
-
- As of right now, this is Mother vs. Unborn Baby. Either one is killed,
- or both live and one has 9 months of discomfort (not including the
- actual birth).
-
- >Paul Brinkley
- >brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- >Pro-Thought Advocate
-
-
- Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
-