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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <32688@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:01:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.154128.22668@panix.com> <32628@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov14.153750.9326@panix.com>
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- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov14.153750.9326@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <32628@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >
- >>A person has a right to refuse
- >>to have their bodies used for purposes to which they do not consent.
- >
- >Where does this principle come from? Did anyone assert it before the
- >modern debate over abortion began in the 1960s? Why should anyone
- >accept it?
-
- Are you saying that you do not accept it?
-
- >On the issue of whether it is in fact accepted as a fundamental legal
- >principle in the United States, I believe that courts have upheld
- >compulsory vaccination and compulsory taking of blood samples and the
- >like for evidence in criminal cases.
-
- It is the principle that allows you to bungee jump, smoke cigarettes,
- drink alcohol, etc. The fact that a right is conditional, such as it
- is subject to the protection of the rights of others from public
- health dangers and crime, does not negate the right or even mean that
- it is not fundamental. We have restrictions on freedom of speech ?
- Do you deny that it is fundamental?
-
- SJM
-