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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: Slavery analogy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.174831.4465@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:48:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.163240.15733@csrd.uiuc.edu> g-skinner@uiuc.edu writes:
-
- } Fetus Slave
- } ----- -----
- } Considered by some to be the Considered by some to be the
- } property of the woman. property of the slave owner.
- }
- } Denied personhood by some. Denied personhood by some.**
- }
- } Abortion abolitionists say Slavery abolitionists say
- } person. person.
-
- Abortion to save the life of Slavery to save the plantation.
- the mother.
-
- Abortion often allowed in Slavery allowed in certain
- cases of rape or incest. circumstances.
-
- oops.
-
- Granted, there are some parallels, but slavery makes not a good analogy
- to pregnancy or abortion. There are some rather obvious differences, as
- pointed out above, that make the two situations unlike enough that
- using one as a basis for arguing the other is often invalid.
-
- If, on the other hand, you'd like to use a desert island...
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