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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.071723.22079@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:17:23 GMT
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- dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes ...
- >cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
- >> Could someone please explain why it is not "violating her [or his] right
- >> to bodily autonomy" when we kill the fetus?
- >
- >I think you're going to have a long wait ahead of you. For months
- >now, I've been trying to get a pro-choicer to explain why abortion
- >is morally justified even when it violates the child's right to
- >bodily autonomy. I got a bunch of kooky explanations, but none
- >that really distinguished between a newborn infant and a child
- >who's still in the womb, or that didn't reduce the woman to a
- >fetal container.
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- Can you explain why abortion is morally proscribed even when it
- DOESN'T violate the fetus's right to bodily autonomy? I suspect that
- I too am in for a long wait.
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