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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 1
- Message-ID: <32777@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:41:56 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.060115.15568@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov17.060115.15568@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- writes to me:
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- >>The inability to name an equivalent burden is exactly what I call the
- >>chastity belt theory of illegal abortion. You are unhappy with the
- >>rate of sexual intercourse in our society and you want to solve this
- >>problem by forcing women to carry all unwanted pregnancies to term.
- >>This is unfair to women. Why should women bear all the burden for
- >>solving what you perceive as too much sex?
- >The first sentence I find incomprehensible. What bearing does
- >equivalency of burdens have on whether abortion should be illegal?
- >The second sentence is comprehensible, but you've given no reason for
- >believing it to be true and in fact it's not true. The remainder of
- >what you say depends on the second sentence.
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- Regarding sentence 1, let me put it in the simplest language possible.
- You claim that you want to force people to be responsible for sexual
- activity. You claim you favor support laws, which would force both
- men and women to support children financially. Then you favor forced
- pregnancy, which puts a special burden only on women? The conclusion
- in sentence 2 is drawn from the fact that among all the human
- behaviors you have chosen to focus on sex and want to enact legal
- restrictions on what women can do to control the consequences of that
- action. That strikes me as a control freak preoccupation with other
- people's sex lives and a desire to punish women for engaging in
- consensual sex. You clearly have a different interpretation of your
- opinions and their consequences for others. I guess we disagree.
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- SJM
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