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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.215527.23123@panix.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:55:27 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.060115.15568@panix.com> <32777@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <32777@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >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?
-
- People should be responsible for their sexual activity, as they are
- for their other activity. That responsibility includes the
- responsibility to foster and support rather than destroy the life that
- results from sexual activity. It is true that prohibition of abortion
- puts a special burden on women; however, since that burden results
- from the application of the same principle (responsibility for one's
- actions) to persons in different circumstances (persons who can and
- persons who can not become pregnant) I see no reason to view the
- special burden as unjust. Nor have you suggested a reason.
-
- You seem to object to the view that one's obligations depend in part
- on one's circumstances. I don't understand the objection.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence." (Blake)
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