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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 17:48:10 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1ebg8lINN3rh@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <shkq7a0@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <shkq7a0@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- #
- #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).
- #
- #Who is that "someone else"? (Hint: is your answer at 8 weeks
- #any different from your answer at 8 months?)
-
- No fair asking me such hard questions if I'm only 8 weeks old. :-)
-
- What do you mean "who"? Who are you? Do you honestly believe "you" didn't
- exist at 8 weeks, or 8 months? I understand that such is a _reasonable_
- belief, but please be aware that it is an act of faith nonetheless. It's
- not the _only_ reasonable belief, either.
-
- #cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
-
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