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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Beware of pointless debates with DODIE:
- Message-ID: <32325@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 19:16:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.182912.11120@ncsu.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov8.182912.11120@ncsu.edu>
- dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes a thread on the
- opinions of some pro-choicers on the personhood status of infants.
- What this article convincingly demonstrates is that one should not
- engage in pointless debates with DODIE; sooner or later, out of
- frustration, you will say something that he will take out context to
- make some twisted point. For the record, DODIE, let me make it
- perfectly clear what my position on this irrelevant issue is: Infants
- are persons. The law is quite clear on who qualifies as a person: any
- born human being. The issue is also irrelevant: A woman should no
- more be forced to used her body to support a /z/e/f/ (not a person)
- then she is forced to use it to support her 5 year old child (a
- person). Personhood is irrelevant to abortion because the set of
- legal persons does not intersect with the set of entities that can be
- aborted.
-