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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 7
- Message-ID: <32737@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:25:52 GMT
- References: <32736@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- More from <1992Nov15.190305.26198@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb):
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- >On what I view as very much a side issue, it seems to me that alimony
- >jail and giving people convicted of a misdemeanor the choice of paying
- >a fine or serving a short prison term are two situations in which our
- >legal situation treats a financial obligation and a bodily obligation
- >as convertible. No doubt there are others -- if I contract to nurse
- >you through an illness and then refuse, I suppose I have the choice of
- >providing bodily services or paying financial damages.
-
- How interesting that you compare a criminal and a pregnant women on
- the one hand. Pregnant women are not criminals, Jim. They also have
- not entered into a contract to bear the child by engaging in a sex
- act. If you want to require the pledge of all women with whom you
- have sex, feel free. I just fail to understand why you want to force
- all women to behave as if they have entered such a contract by
- consenting to sex.
-
- SJM
-