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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.141423.6684@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <1992Dec29.182956.21402@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:14:23 CST
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- In article <1992Dec29.182956.21402@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <C00L3K.HwF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- >parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >
- >> Since it is the *pro-choice* reasoning he is
- >> saying must condone infanticide, his (Doug's) beliefs can not
- >> be used to back up his argument when it has been repeatedly
- >> shown that many pro-choice positions *can* and *do* distinguish
- >> between the born and the unborn and some can even disallow
- >> infanticide and allow late-term abortions without any
- >> inconsistency.
- >
- >Oh, I agree. But these pro-choice arguments are often based upon
- >factual differences between "the born and the unborn" which carry
- >no moral weight in themselves. Pro-choicers have stated that
- >the child is inside the woman, which is a fact. Why does this
- >fact carry moral weight?
-
- Because we place a _positive_ value on the woman. Her life,
- her health, her wishes with regards to her body.
-
- For those who place no positive value on women, the fact that
- a fetus is inside a woman would, of course, carry no 'moral
- weight'.
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- muriel
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