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- From: smezias@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Abortion slavery analogy supports pro-choice position.
- Message-ID: <29444@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:45:24 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.032432.10808@ncsu.edu> <fcknh0m.gordons@netcom.com> <168578928.M21164@mwvm.mitre.org>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <168578928.M21164@mwvm.mitre.org> M21164@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
-
- >For a long time similar logic was used to defend the practice of owning slaves.
- >"You think slavery is wrong? Well, then don't own one! But don't try to force
- >*your* belief system on me" Slavery only offended the delicate sensibilities
- >of the prohibitionists.
-
- The legislative agenda has to do with control of one's own body not
- the body of another. The eventual decision to outlaw slavery fit in
- with common law notions that one person should not be allowed to force
- another to support him with their body. The anti-choice position
- implies that a /z/e/f/, which at least legally is most clearly *not* a
- person, should be allowed to force a woman to support it with her body.
-
- >This brings us quicky to the crux of the abortion argument, because it will be
- >pointed out that slavery involves the rights of another person but, according
- >the pro-choice view, abortion does not.
-
- Whether the /z/e/f/ is a person is immaterial. A parent is not
- legally compelled to use their body to save the life of their child;
- for example, you cannot be forced to donate blood or a kidney to save
- the life of your ten year old. Why should a woman be forced to do for
- a /z/e/f/ what she is not forced to do for her child?
-
- >Well, pro-lifers believe it does,
- >and unbelievable though it may seem to some, there are numerous thoughtful and
- >resonable people in the pro-life crowd.
-
- I have yet to see one of these thoughtful and resonable [sic] people
- answer the question that closes my previous comment. I have seen one
- unreasonable fool, Dan Dick, advocate passing laws to force parents to
- donate bodily organs to their children.
-
- > This is why the issue of abortion
- >belongs not in the judicial, but in the legislative arena, where resonable
- >people can argue the merits of each side. That's what democracy's for.
-
- Since the above `rationale' is incorrect, so is the conclusion.
-
- SJM
-