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- From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Another good reason not to vote for Bush
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.202157.23639@gordian.com>
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- References: <1992Aug12.220315.1424@s1.gov> <BswBy6.ECK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <16drfkINNbst@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <BsxsG4.MuG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <ohgc6so@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:21:57 GMT
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- > In article <BsxsG4.MuG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tbuckley@s.psych.uiuc.edu writes:
- > |Sorry Adrienne but again this is simple. If one believes that
- > |the fetus is a human being then the issue is clear. The right
- > |to life takes precedence over other rights. It isn't that the
- > |woman does not have rights it is that they are subservient to
- > |the right to life of the fetus.
-
- The fallacy here, of course, is that a person does not have a
- right to life; a person has the right to the *pursuit* of life. Nature
- does not provide food-and-shelter trees which are freely available.
- Rights are rights of potential, not substance. A fetus cannot demand
- the sacrifice of another persons rights just by *being*, any more
- than you can demand me to sacrifice my life to your benifit without
- my permission.
- This of course is just a rehash of the fallacy of "economic rights".
- When will people learn the difference...
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- Michael Thomas (mike@gordian.com)
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