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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 6
- Message-ID: <32783@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:00:42 GMT
- References: <32736@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.065357.18024@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Nov17.065357.18024@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- writes more of the same:
-
- >To repeat myself: the motivation for forbidding abortion is that the
- >z/e/f has value. The reason for an exception in the case of rape is
- >that the law does not command that all good things be done -- it also
- >requires that the person commanded to do the good thing be someone who
- >may appropriately be assigned the obligation. A common basis for
- >obligation is that people are responsible for the forseeable
- >consequences of their voluntary actions. What's so hard to understand
- >about that line of thought?
-
- Who the hell are you to decide about the fertility responsiblities of
- others? If the /z/e/f/ is so sacred, why does the rapist's wrong
- invalidate its sacred right to life? Can you name any other situation
- where another person's crime invalidates the right to life of some
- second entity?
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