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- From: skinner@sp94.csrd.uiuc.edu (Gregg Skinner)
- Subject: Re: Slavery Analogy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.200342.25299@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:03:42 GMT
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- sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
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- >He seems to ignore arguments about bodily autonomy.
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- I am truly at a loss to understand why this would be said. Did I not
- just acknowledge an argument about bodily autonomy? I wrote:
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- In other words, we can outlaw slavery without infringing on the
- rights of the slave owner, while outlawing abortion may subject
- women to unwanted health problems. I think (Hsims) makes an
- argument that may head in the right direction, though one has to
- weed through much superfluous material to find it.
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- >Perhaps he equates women's bodies with plots of land...
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- This rediculous suggestion does not even warrant a response.
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- >Is Skinner really unable to understand that the analogy breaks
- >down because fetuses reside inside women's bodies and slaves
- >do not?
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- Whether I am able to understand this I know not, and I shall not find
- out here if posters continue to ask intellectually arrogant questions
- instead of making arguments that might clarify their positions.
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- Gregg Skinner
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