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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.054455.22725@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <1992Dec15.025342.12892@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec15.130048.7921@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Dec22.175326.23496@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:44:55 GMT
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- dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes ...
- >edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil) writes:
- >> since defending one's bodily rights requires directly "violating" the
- >> rights of another, it is wrong to do so.
- >
- >So if a pregnant woman drinks alcohol and takes drugs,
- >thus 'attacking' her child and violating the child's
- >right to bodily autonomy, does it follow that the child
- >should have the right to 'abort' the woman?
-
- Early evidence indicates that in at least some species (and probably
- humans) the fetus initiates the labor that will lead to its birth. A
- fetus apparently already gets to end the pregnancy anytime it wants
- to.
-
- >> For example, if a burglar
- >> enters a person's home, does the homeowner not have a right to fight off
- >> the burglar simply because that would directly "violate" the burglar's
- >> bodily rights?
- >
- >Yes, the homeowner has the right to fight off the burglar,
- >because the burglar committed an immoral and illegal act.
- >The mere existence of an innocent child in the woman's womb
- >is neither immoral nor illegal.
-
- Trespassing. Assault (felony). Theft.
-
- That's what you'd be charged with if you did to a woman what a fetus
- does. Probably also some sex-related crimes and possibly special
- circumstances for torture.
-
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- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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