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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Pro-Choice Criteria for Personhood
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.180552.28235@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Nov7.205603.13423@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov8.033559.13432@netcom.com> <1992Nov8.171415.8182@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:05:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.171415.8182@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov8.033559.13432@netcom.com>
- >bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- >
- >>dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- >>> But a child is killed during an abortion, the child is not
- >>> just 'left to die'. You can't escape the fact that during
- >>> the vast majority of abortions, the child is intentionally
- >>> killed by the abortionist.
- >
- >> ... instead of being left to die a slow death of oxygen deprivation.
- >> Is this more 'humane' to you?
- >
- >I'm simply pointing out that an unrestricted abortion right does not
- >follow from the right to bodily autonomy.
-
- Does not follow from the right to bodily autonomy ALONE, Doug. But it
- still follows.
-
- >That says nothing about a 'humane' death.
-
- Correct. But Utilitarianism, or just simple compassion, dictates that
- it makes no sense for a woman to suffer unnecessary hardship, just for
- the purpose of making the "symbolic gesture" of removing the non-viable
- fetus intact, only to have it die shortly thereafter.
-
- - Kevin
-