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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!jk
- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: ProChoice Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.112536.1313@panix.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:25:36 GMT
- Distribution: talk.abortion
- References: <1992Nov18.193320.20408@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1egf8iINNk3t@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov20.113358.2759@panix.com> <1ej4coINNilj@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
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- In <1ej4coINNilj@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
-
- >In *our* society, we got together and took a look at the nature of humans
- >and decided it didn't make much sense for us to collectively agree not to
- >think, not to speak, not to believe different things, because that's a kinda
- >worthless exercise, so we decided that we'd recognise the freedom of indi-
- >viduals to think, speak, and believe, in addition to some others, in our
- >form of government.
-
- >The *right* to use one's body as one chooses is a right recognised by our
- >government. It is a right EXERCISED by and individual, which is where you
- >got tangled up.
-
- You seem to be saying that the rights we have are simply the rights
- the particular society in which we live recognizes and nothing more,
- and that in the United States in 1992 those rights happen to include
- the right to use one's body as one chooses.
-
- Does it follow that if the religious Right wins a bunch of elections
- and one day in 1996 the government makes all abortion and all
- contraception illegal, the next morning you would have no grounds for
- complaint that any of your rights were being denied?
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Alles Erworbne bedroht die Maschine, solange
- sie sich erdreistet, im Geist, statt im Gehorchen, zu sein." (Rilke)
-