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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.151341.7208@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:13:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.054455.22725@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- From article <1992Dec23.054455.22725@netcom.com>,
- by ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer):
-
- > dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes ...
-
- >>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.
-
- Really? What do you mean by "early evidence"? I was under the impression
- that the nature and source of the endogenous labor-inducing signal is
- unknown. There have been some *very* recent reports on this subject.
-
- --
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- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-