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- From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: Re: Loren Finkelstein, please clarify.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.180002.28107@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <14DEC92.20 <14DEC92.20420711@vax.clarku.edu> <1gs5tdINN88o@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:00:02 GMT
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- In article <1gs5tdINN88o@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- ramsay@math.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- >In article <14DEC92.20420711@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- >|I'm willing to sign a legal contract stating that I will not abort any
- >|unwanted pregnancies if you will agree to be fisted for nine months. What's
- >|nine months of your time compared to the life of a cute little unborn baby?
-
- >|Prove that you are willing to sacrifice your time, money, and bodily
- >|resources for the life of a fetus, or quit demanding that women do that.
- >|Otherwise you are nothing more than a sexist hypocrite.
-
- >I find this argument bizarre.
-
- >For one thing, there is a big difference between being willing to make
- >sacrifices which are actually necessary to "save" the life of a fetus,
- >and being willing to submit to the conditions imposed by someone else
- >as a condition for their doing so.
-
- In this case, submitting to the conditions imposed by someone else is
- necessary to safe the life of a fetus.
-
- The CuteWarmFuzzyUnbornFetus can't tell the difference between being
- aborted because Mommy didn't want him, or because you wouldn't pay the
- price Mommy demanded to give birth to him.
-
- >It is similar to the difference
- >between being willing to risk your life to defend another, and giving
- >in to terrorist demands.
-
- No. Terrorism is illegal. Abortion is legal. You may find both
- equally immoral -- but there is a significant percentage of the
- American population that does not agree. I see the similiarity, but
- the differences are major.
-
- You know what really annoyed me about your article?
-
- Not your refusal to be fisted -- you have a valid point that the
- contract would be unenforceable, and I understand your distinction
- between things that nature makes necessary to save a fetus and things
- that the mother demand.
-
- I was annoyed because you didn't give any indication you were willing
- to do *anything* beyond taking away the option of a legal abortion.
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-
- Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
-