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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utgpu!utorvm!ryevm.ryerson.ca!admn8647
- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
- Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 23:15:26 EST
- From: Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Message-ID: <92324.231526ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
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- References: <32588@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <32590@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- <1992Nov13.154128.22668@panix.com> <32628@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- <1992Nov14.153750.9326@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov14.153750.9326@panix.com> Jim Kalb says:
- >
- >In <32628@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> Stephen J. Mezias writes:
- >
- >>A person has a right to refuse
- >>to have their bodies used for purposes to which they do not consent.
- >
- >Where does this principle come from? Did anyone assert it before the
- >modern debate over abortion began in the 1960s?
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- "The advertisement of the 'Comstock Syringe...had one sole,
- exclusive purpose, vs.: the proclamation of an opinion, the
- assertion of Woman's Natural Right to ownership and control
- over her own body-self - a right inseparable from Women's
- intelligent existence; a right unquestionably, precious,
- inalienable, real - beyond words to express..."
- Ezra Heywood, Free Speech: Report of Ezra Heywood's
- Defence before the United States Court, in Boston,
- April 10, 11, and 12, 1873
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- Linda
- --
- How lively anti-feminism still is can be judged by the
- eagerness of certain men to reject everything favourable
- to the emancipation of women.
- Simon DeBeauvoir, 1953
-