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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <shkq7a0@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:30:05 GMT
- References: <23971@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Nov12.162153.1591@panix.com> <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1ebg8lINN3rh@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
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- In article <1ebg8lINN3rh@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, you write:
- |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).
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- Who is that "someone else"? (Hint: is your answer at 8 weeks
- any different from your answer at 8 months?)
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- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "Dogmatic attachment to the supposed merits of a particular structure
- hinders the search for an appropriate structure" -- Robert Fripp
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