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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Loren Finkelstein, please clarify.
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:26:43 -0800
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- In article <1guoq3INNegd@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ramsay@math.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- >In article <1gtt9jINNn66@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- >regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >|If the question is 'saving the life of the fetus', then the means,
- >|outlined above, is quite clear. Loren can save the life of a fetus by
- >|consenting to being fisted for nine months. Guaranteed. He can do
- >|this 'good' thing for the world. He actually *can*. It is within his
- >|power.
- >
- >I say that there is a morally relevant distinction here, between the
- >situation Loren is faced with, and the situation a pregnant woman is
- >faced with.
-
- So?
-
- _IF_ the question is 'saving the life of the fetus', who gives a damn
- about the niggling and squiggling methods you and Loren use to get out
- of actually putting your bodies where your mouths are?
-
- Do you or do you not want to save the lives of fetuses?
-
- Or is it REALLY only that you want to force OTHER PEOPLE to save the
- lives of fetuses?
-
- Why do you figure *you* get to decide who is morally distinctly obligated
- and who is not?
-
- I say *I* get to decide who is morally distinctly obligated to save a fetus'
- life. And that you aren't going to like the means or the answer. Gee, too
- bad.
-
- (a bunch more niggling and squiggling about how Loren doesn't have to
- do anything even though HE is the one who values the fetus' life, but
- how many unknown women DO have to do something even though they do not
- value the fetus' life, deleted)
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-