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- Subject: RE: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line ""arbitrary""
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:22:42 GMT
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- In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () wrote:
- >smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >
- >>Also generally, I believe that state actions that restrict individual
- >>liberty should be held to strict standards of justification. I
- >>believe this is doubly true for actions that would impose costs
- >>disproportionately on traditionally disenfranchised groups. With
- >>specific respect to abortion, I would add that the right of women to
- >>protection from the public health risk of illegal abortions and forced
- >
- >The over 90% of illegal abortions performed before Roe v Wade were done
- >by licensed physicians in good medical standing in their own offices.
- >The number of deaths before and after Roe v Wade showed no statistical
- >decrease in deaths resulting from abortion.
-
- Where exactly do you get these statistics from? I would appreciate some
- references, since your data conflicts with what I have read.
-
- >Stop perpetuating these lies.
- >
- >>pregnancy far outweighs any right to state protection for the
- >>*potential citizens*. State resources are scarce, and I find it
- >
- >Ms. Smith consented to have sex. In so doing she has surrendered her rights
- >to bodily integrity and personal autonomy.
-
- Consent to sex does not equal consent to nine months of pregnancy.
-
- >There is a BIG difference
- >between allowing someone to die through INaction and ACTIVELY hacking someone
- >to pieces. Abortion is a physical violation of the bodily integrity and
- >personal autonomy of someone who had NO CHOICE but to be brought into existance.
- >This isn't the same thing as providing handouts to a welfare family. If you
- >cut their public aid, they still have the chance to provide for themselves.
- >If they died, that would still have been at least partially their fault.
- >Now, if I walked into that welfare family house with an axe and took 20 minutes
- >to slowly cut each person to pieces, that would be murder.
-
- Of course it would. Welfare families are citizens with legal rights. Fetuses
- are not. Also, the welfare family you describe was living in a house, not
- inside another human being causing physicial harm to him/her.
-
- >You need to get a sense of proportion to your reality.
- >
- >>impossible to justify using them to force one citizen to donate bodily
- >>resources to save another citizen. The fact that the affected
- >
- >Hmm... the draft has only involved citizens who were uniquely men. Is this
- >equal protection under the law? I think not.
- >
- >In fact, our MALE citizens have been drafted to save people who WEREN'T
- >even U.S. citizens... I think that is even more unequal. Don't forget
- >that millions of MEN have died fighting for freedom so you can whine
- >about whether or not you can be promiscuous and hack babies to pieces.
-
- Married, non-promiscuous women have abortions too. And I don't for one second
- believe that Mr. Mezias wants to "hack babies to pieces". If you know of
- anyone who IS hacking babies to pieces, I hope you will report them to the
- police, since hacking babies to pieces is illegal.
-
- >>citizens would be uniquely women also raises concerns regarding equal
- >>protection under the law. In addition, absent a precedent for such
- >>restrictions on citizens for the sake of other *citizens*, I find it
- >>hard to advocate policies to `save' *potential* citizens with the
- >>bodily servitude of citizens.
- >
- >Once again, Ms. Smith went and had sex without using her brain.
-
- Once again, consent to sex, with or without using brains, does not equal
- consent to nine months of pregnancy. You keep refering to a woman who
- consented to sex. What kind of punishment would you hand out to men who
- consent to sex? Do you think only women should suffer bodily harm for the
- horrible "crime" of consenting to sex?
-
- >Murder is murder.
-
- Sure is. However, abortion is not murder.
-
- >There is no such thing as a potential citizen except in the legal
- >sense. Morally and scientifically life begins at fertilization, and so does
- >citizenhood. ^^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Try claiming a tax-deduction for a fetus, and you'll learn that citizenhood
- does NOT begin at fertilization.
-
- >>SJM
- >Edward Simmonds
-
- .... Heather.
-