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- From: keegan@acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.)
- Subject: Re: restrictions
- Message-ID: <q3w1_y+@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: T.S.A.K.C.
- References: <1992Nov16.174419.21294@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov17.004440.19764@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov17.055146.5262@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:24:26 GMT
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- ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- ->smgarvin@nyx.cs.du.edu (susan garvin) writes ...
- ->> If someone who lived in an isolated
- ->>area took this action today, believing it to be safer than
- ->>performing major surgery undernon-sterile condition, I wouldn't want
- ->>that person to be prosecuted for manslaughter. I wonder
- ->>if Fischer would.
-
- ->Of course not. But to argue that the life of a born -10 minutes
- ->fetus is less important than the life of a cat is equally absurd.
-
- strawman; anti-choice rhetoric. no one claimed that it
- was.
-
- ->Isn't there some way of protecting viable fetuses while ensuring the
- ->right of a woman to end the pregnancy?
-
- another strawman. abortion is the termination fo a
- pregnancy. the fetal rights argument is simply another
- old, anti-choice strategy. pro-choice organizations
- focus on protecting a woman's right to abortion.
- anti-choice groups focus on restricting those rights.
- some anti-choice groups still use the fetal rights
- argument.
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