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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Jim reiterates the chastity belt theory of forced pregnancy!
- Message-ID: <32613@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:26:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.030316.5387@panix.com> <32561@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov12.192134.8849@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Nov12.192134.8849@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- writes to me (>>):
-
- >>In article <1992Nov12.030316.5387@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- >>is back! Hi, Jim: Do you still subscribe to the chastity belt theory
- >>of why abortions should be illegal? That is, do you still believe
- >>that forcing women to carry pregnancies to terms is justified by their
- >>having engaged in the the dirty deed?
- >
- >Hi, Stephen, it's nice to be remembered.
- >
- >Your references to chastity belts and dirty deeds are obscure.
- >Possibly you don't remember me that well, or you may be confusing me
- >with someone else.
-
- I like the way that Jim's subsequent verbiage belies his innocent
- opener.
-
- >I do still believe that the z/e/f is valuable without regard to
- >whether anyone wants it, that some very good reason is needed to
- >justify destroying it, and that preservation of the mother's autonomy
- >is not a good enough reason when the existence of the z/e/f is a
- >reasonably forseeable consequence of the mother's voluntary act.
-
- To quote from what I wrote about you before. How is what you have
- just argued different from the end of my initial question to you:
-
- >>forcing women to carry pregnancies to terms is justified by their
- >>having engaged in the the dirty deed?
-
- Is responsibility for the pregnancy equally shared by man and woman?
- What commensurate `holding responsible' do you propose for men?
-
- Do parents have to donate kidneys to children since their act is
- responsible for bringing the child into the world?
-
- If I smoke cigarettes, should I be denied medical treatment for lung
- cancer?
-
- SJM
-