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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 3
- Message-ID: <32780@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:55:46 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <32733@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.062948.16995@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov17.062948.16995@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- writes a lot of gobbledy gook about how to determine this amorphous
- thing he wants to call the general pattern of things. We're in
- agreement about one point: As a society we will make a determination
- about whether women should be denied the right to abortion as a
- consequence of having consensual sex. We disagree as to the answer,
- and it looks as if my side is about to have a series of important
- victories.
-
- >Of course, there are other distinctions -- organ donations where a
- >parent is the only possible donor are exceptional, while pregnancies
- >in which the mother is the only possible person to bear the z/e/f are
- >the rule. In addition, I think people are stricter about acts of
- >commission than acts of omission, and abortion seems to be the former
- >while failure to donate an organ seems to be the latter.
-
- So, do you favor forcing organ donations in cases of unique donors?
- The commission-omission distinction turns out to be no more objective
- than the definition of what acts people will be held responsible for:
- more semantics to cover a case of disagreement which you are about to
- lose in the Congress.
-
- SJM
-