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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:13:25 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- Message-ID: <1ebg8lINN3rh@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- References: <23971@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Nov12.162153.1591@panix.com> <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- [...]
- >When you rape, you involve the body of another person.
- >That person, just like you, has control over what happens
- >to his/her body. The consent of the other person is
- >what makes the difference between consensual sex & rape.
- >
- >When a woman obtains an abortion, she affects her own body.
- >Nobody else's body is involved. (Hint: if you think otherwise,
- >you have to prove your case.)
-
- The second statement is incorrect. And it is trivially easy to prove that
- someone else's body is involved during some abortions, just as it is
- trivially easy to show that another person's body is involved in your rape
- example (hint: no need to submit a rigorous topological proof in either
- case).
-
- >When nobody else is involved, nobody else has the right to
- >interfere.
-
- Unfortunately somebody else _is_ involved, hence the problem. Fortunately,
- this need not be an obstacle to a woman's right to a legal abortion. Also
- fortunately, many women hold private moral values which they do allow to
- prevent them from obtaining abortions, by their own choice.
-
- >cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
-
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