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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Another good reason not to vote for Bush
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:26:02 GMT
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- In <ohgc6so@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
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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.
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- >Keep spelling it out for us. How would you resolve the various
- >conflicts of rights which can result in a pregnancy? Does this
- >belief of yours mean that:
-
- Hope you don't mind my butting in with my own answers. By the way,
- Ms. Regard, in case you can see this, did you see any of my
- follow-ups to your posts of July, or any of my posts?
-
- > - The fetus takes precedence over the woman's financial needs?
- > (no abortion in cases where the woman can't afford to support
- > a child, would lose job, etc.)
-
- The life of the fetus does, yes. [Fetus: developing human after 8
- weeks. I don't want to get bogged down on much earlier z/e/f's
- at this point.]
-
- > - The fetus takes precedence over the woman's mental wellbeing?
- > (no abortion in cases where the stress of continued pregnancy
- > would impair the mental health of the woman)
-
- Ditto.
-
- > - The fetus takes precedence over the woman's health?
- > (no abortion in cases of danger to woman's health)
-
- Ditto, unless the danger is of a debilitation so severe that the
- woman would almost be better off dead.
-
- > - The fetus's right to life takes precedence over the woman's
- > right to life? (no abortion in cases of danger to the
- > woman's life)
-
- Negative to that one. However, I know of no examples at this advanced
- state of our knowledge except ectopic pregnancy, which is very often
- taken care of before the fetal stage.
-
-
- >cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- >"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
-
- If men could have abortions, pregnancy would be a sacrament.
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