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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't the fetus have the right to bodily autonomy?
- Message-ID: <23513@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 12:10:38 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.023059.16124@ncsu.edu> <1992Aug11.214131.8252@ncsu.edu>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In talk.abortion, dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <5677@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
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- >The developing child can be killed by the mother's immune system
- >if the mother suffers from a condition known as "Rh incompatibility".
- >The developing child can also be harmed by the mother's use of
- >alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and other teratogens. Using your reasoning,
- >wouldn't the mother forfeit her right to bodily autonomy if she
- >harmed the developing child in these situations?
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- DOD, you just don't get it, do you. A developing fetus is not considered
- a person by all, otherwise there probably would be a different discussion
- going on here. Also, a fetus is not considered a person by many, and
- it proveable that the fetus impinges on the body of the mother. The
- best way to resolve the issue you addressed is to separate the two entities,
- but, lo, that would be an abortion, and generally the fetus dies.
-
- Ron
-
- Potassium Benzoate included as a preserver.
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