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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: ProChoice Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.113358.2759@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:33:58 GMT
- Distribution: talk.abortion
- References: <1992Nov18.193320.20408@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1egf8iINNk3t@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
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- In <1egf8iINNk3t@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov18.193320.20408@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> brian@lpl.arizona.edu (Brian Ceccarelli 602/621-9615) writes:
- >>I have a simple question for pro-choicers:
- >>
- >> You say you have the "Right to Choose". Who is the
- >> authority that grants you this right?
-
- >The highest authority that exists: Ourselves.
-
- I take it you mean ourselves individually rather than collectively --
- you don't think your "right to choose" depends on any decision our
- society makes. For example, you don't think it could legitimately be
- taken away by legislation. Am I right?
-
- If so, then it appears you are saying that for you, you are the
- highest authority that exists, for me, I am the highest authority that
- exists, and so on.
-
- Does that view even make sense? "Authority" means something you are
- bound by. What sense does it make to say you are bound by yourself?
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Alles Erworbne bedroht die Maschine, solange
- sie sich erdreistet, im Geist, statt im Gehorchen, zu sein." (Rilke)
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