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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <34496@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:58:17 GMT
- References: <sfBIDYy00Uh_02YUhM@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <sfBIDYy00Uh_02YUhM@andrew.cmu.edu> ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu
- (Michael Loomis) writes a long piece about infanticide. While the
- anthropological perspective he suggests is quite relevant to a debate
- about the historical morality of infanticide, it has little to do with
- the thread in question. A pro-choice position that argues that the BA
- of a persons protects that person from undesired occupation by another
- entity does not condone infanticide. I have no idea why Michael
- Loomis thinks protecting a person from such undesired occupation of
- their bodies is `making too much' of the fact that a /z/e/f/ is in a
- person's body and an infant is not. However, I do know that as far as
- I am concerned, this is a *crucial* difference. It is the involuntary
- use of bodily resources of the mother that makes abortion a compelling
- right as far as I am concerned.
-
- SJM
-