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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: More of JIm's strange equivalencies.
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 10:56:12 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1992Nov17.222645.24532@panix.com> <32846@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov19.154427.15282@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.154427.15282@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <32846@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- [...]
- >>Taking physically inept person out on a boat, apparently without a
- >>life jacket == Making good faith effort to avoid pregnancy using birth
- >>control
- >
- >>I don't accept any of these.
- >
- >Nor do I. The point of the example, though, is to show that the
- >pro-choice view cannot be established by categorical statements about
- >abstract rights of autonomy. Rather, you have to consider just what
- >the z/e/f is, how great a burden pregnancy is, and whether it is
- >appropriate to require the woman to bear that burden in accordance
- >with our normal concepts of responsibility.
-
- You also have to consider logical consistency, and fairness, if you wish to
- consider yourself logically consistent and fair.
-
- Now, if one is going to require a pregnant woman to support another person's
- biological functions, then it is logical and fair to require everyone else to
- do the same - this means mandatory blood donation, and mandatory organ
- donation for the dead (and for the living, if the risk they face in donation
- is comparable to the risk women face in childbirth).
-
- Furthermore, since the right to one's body is far more basic than the right
- to property (a porsche is not of much value if you are too busy giving birth
- all the time to drive it) , a logical and fair person will be compelled to
- advocate the mandatory selling of all private assets, in order to buy food
- and medicine to save the lives of the starving in the third world.
-
- >Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
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