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- From: smccabe@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Sarah A McCabe)
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.222451.6926@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:24:51 GMT
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- In article <1ebg8lINN3rh@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >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).
-
- No, Frank, CJ's statement was correct. Just because your definition of person
- includes fetuses and you wish that ours would too, we are not incorrect
- when we use the standard legal definition. Your personal definition of
- the term can include anything you like and you are free and welcome to
- try and convince us to accept your definition, but your wishing it
- does not make it so. For example, you may think of your pet dog as a member
- of the family and you may firmly believe that it has a soul and as much worth
- as any human person, however, it is still not legally a person and I am not
- wrong for refering to it as a non-person.
-
- Sarah McCabe
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