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  1. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!att-out!cbnewsj!decay
  3. From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
  4. Subject: Re: Slavery analogy
  5. Organization: AT&T
  6. Distribution: na
  7. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:52:23 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.165223.2881@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
  9. References: <1992Dec21.025500.26863@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec23.163240.15733@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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  12. In article <1992Dec23.163240.15733@csrd.uiuc.edu>, skinner@sp94.csrd.uiuc.edu (Gregg Skinner) writes:
  13. > 
  14. > To be sure, there are differences.  For instance, the fetus is inside
  15. > a woman's body; the slave's situation is not analogous.  But those of
  16. > us (myself included) who would leave the abortion choice to
  17. > individuals must ask ourselves whether we would also leave the choice
  18. > to keep slaves to the individual.  If our answer differs, we must be
  19. > able to clearly explain why.  Arguing "slaves are people" will not do,
  20. > for it is probable that not everyone agrees.  Certainly such a
  21. > concensus had not been reached at the time of the Emancipation
  22. > Proclamation.
  23.  
  24. Next time that individual lives inside that woman's body, I will
  25. gladly leave her the choice of whether or not to make of that
  26. individual occupying her body a slave.
  27.  
  28. Dean Kaflowitz
  29.