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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Parallel situations
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.044419.17590@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 04:44:19 GMT
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- In <1993Jan1.020450.218@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.202557.22636@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>In <1992Dec30.095751.1789@cs.ucla.edu> gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec30.050758.1772@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>>>Again, there's a difference between a right and a reason for exercising that
- >>>>right. Her *right* is to control how her body is used.
- >>>
- >>>I am not disputing that right. I am pointing out that men do not have
- >>>any rights in this situation,
- >>
- >>Men have the same rights as do women regarding bodily autonomy. Since the
- >>fetus isn't growing in the man's body, though, this doesn't help him much.
- >
- >The woman who aborts, or chooses not to, also exercises an ECONOMIC right,
- >Larry. No male-choicer is asking for men to have the same BIOLOGICAL rights
- >as women; we're just asking for the same ECONOMIC rights that women currently
- >have thrown in as a bonus with their biological rights.
-
- What economic right is that? Are you saying that a woman has a *right* to
- not support her child?
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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