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- From: joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph F. Mays)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Pro-choicers must condone infanticide
- Message-ID: <3375@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:40:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.182956.21402@ncsu.edu>
- Organization: Dept. of CS Ball State University Muncie IN
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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>
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- >Pro-choicers have stated that
- >the child is inside the woman, which is a fact. Why does this
- >fact carry moral weight?
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- Because it's presence there means that any attempt to regulate it's well-
- being makes it necessary for the government to place controls upon the
- woman's body. This violates what I believe to be a basic right of
- bodily autonomy. I feel that it is immoral for the government to
- exercise this power over another, *especially* in absence of any
- crime or wrongdoing on the part of the person so controlled.
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- Joe
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