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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Why pro-choicers must argue that a fetus is not a person
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 09:29:30 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1d8s48INNobg@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1d96o7INN1ta@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov4.214059.15172@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov4.214059.15172@ncsu.edu: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- :In article <1d96o7INN1ta@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- :frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- :
- :> I'm NOT arguing that this should affect the woman's right to abort. I think
- :> that EVEN if the foetus is viewed as a person then the woman has a right to
- :> remove it from her body. I also think that even though this implies in the
- :> abstract that a viable foetus should not be killed during removal,
- :> legislation to that effect doesn't make any sense, since we are talking about
- :> third-tri abortions performed in the main to save the woman's life.
- :
- :There are several thousand abortions performed after the 21st week
- :of pregnancy; many of these children are killed because they are
- :simply retarded or handicapped. It makes no sense to allow these
- :children to be killed before birth, but not after birth.
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- Evidence?
-
- :And, while a non-viable child will die if the child is simply
- :removed from the womnb, it does not follow that a person should
- :have the right to kill them. The right to kill does not logically
- :follow from the right to refuse bodily support. I don't have
- :the right to kill a dying person.
-
- Yes you do. Have you given blood today?
-
- :Doug Holtsinger
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