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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: The ultimate pro-choice argument [long]
- Message-ID: <markp.727719437@joplin.wri.com>
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- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan14.175105.8271@netcom.com> <1993Jan15.091736.15007@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:17:17 GMT
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- >From article <1993Jan14.175105.8271@netcom.com>,
- >by bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig):
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-
- >> It's all well and good to say, "You're killing a human being just
- >> because a woman doesn't want to spend a few months carrying it!" But
- >> there's a lot more to it than that. I know this argument has been
- >> rehashed ad nauseum, but a lot of people seem to be ignoring it: if
- >> you're going to let a fetus use a woman's body when it needs her in
- >> order to survive, how can you not let a person who needs blood or
- >> organs or bone marrow use your body when he needs you in order to
- >> survive? Don't give me the standard line about "letting nature take
- >> its course," because we don't live in the Stone Age any more.
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- The z/e/f was placed in a state of dependency by (among others) the person
- on whom she depends. The patient needing blood etc. was not.
-