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- From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
- Subject: He makes it so easy! (was Re: The Red Button Scenario)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.030102.27310@wdl.loral.com>
- Sender: news@wdl.loral.com
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- Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
- References: <1992Aug7.145900.23337@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <lefty-300792174350@lefty.apple.com> <Aug05.043026.58939@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <Aug07.043718.29553@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <Aug12.052533.54985@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:01:02 GMT
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- sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Steven Arnold) writes:
- # kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes:
- # > What if I don't agree that having sex = waiving my right to bodily
- # > autonomy?
- #
- # Then you are mistaken.
-
- Wow. How come nobody makes me sign a waiver?
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- What is this -- one of them there `implied consent' kind of things?
- Kind of like how I consent to having my body searched for intoxicants
- when I exercise my driving privilege granted to me by the State?
-
- You mean sex is a privilege?
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- (Oh dear.)
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- # Sorry, it does. It is a medical fact that a new member of the human
- # species begins at conception and continues until death.
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- Do they get a membership card and everything?
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- Hey! I didn't get one! This better not mean I don't have a right to
- life...
-
-
- ...not to mention a right to control my own body.
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-
- (Ooops. I did it again, didn't I?)
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- --
- J H Woodyatt (a.k.a. Dr. Strychnine)
- Space Systems/Loral
-
- "I am fully prepared to anoint myself with the rancid fat of a feral
- sow and run naked through town while the villagers throw pot-stickers
- at me."
- -- Michael Rigler
-