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- From: keegan@acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.)
- Subject: pragmatism?
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- References: 1992Nov6.202915.23403@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:04:44 GMT
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- ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- ->While it may be true that women have a right to their own
- ->bodies, one cannot discount the social effect and attitudes fostered by
- ->an opinion that a fetus is worthless. For that reason I do not
- ->generally argue for that view.
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- ->In my _opinion_ one _must_ recognize that both the woman and the
- ->fetus have great value. But the priciple of liberty may have more
- ->value than a fetus. Many people have died to preserve our freedoms;
- ->I am rather stringly disinclined to forgo those freedoms without
- ->compelling reasons.
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- what might those compelling reasons be, ray?
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- do you want to imprison women who have banned
- abortions?
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- would you deny abortion in the case of rape, ray?
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