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- From: mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The ultimate pro-choice argument [long]
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:17:07 -0500
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Vienna, Va.
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- References: <1993Jan14.175105.8271@netcom.com> <1993Jan15.091736.15007@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <markp.727719437@joplin.wri.com>
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- In article <markp.727719437@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>From article <1993Jan14.175105.8271@netcom.com>,
- >>by bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig):
- >
- >
- >>> 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.
- >
- >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.
-
- That's not necessarily so.
-
- Suppose I go rob a 7-Eleven, and in the process, I shoot the
- clerk. There are several eyewitnesses, and a security camera
- can prove that I was the one who robbed the store, and that
- I shot the clerk. As if that wasn't enough evidence, I was
- also filmed in the act at close range by an amateur photog-
- rapher.
-
- I am captured at the scene, and taken directly to the police
- station, booked, and placed in holding.
-
- The clerk is rushed to a hospital, where it is discovered that
- he is in need of a kidney transplant, because the bullet shat-
- tered on his spinal column, and destroyed both of his kidneys.
- All of the damage to his body is a direct result of my earlier
- actions.
-
- It is discovered from earlier medical records that the clerk and
- I have the same blood type, and that our bodies are compatible
- enough for me to make a good organ donor, if not an excellent
- one.
-
- Still, even though I am the direct cause of this man's problems,
- and possible loss of life, I am not legally compelled to donate
- any part of my body (whether I need it to survive or not) to
- help save this man.
-
- -- Mike
-
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