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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.173003.23723@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan23.181412.6771@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan24.000916.20341@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan24.055119.15266@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:30:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.055119.15266@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.000916.20341@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan23.181412.6771@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>In a thread he no doubt can't follow at all, cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- >>>(Mike Cobb) blurts out another inanity:
- >>>
- >>>>Could someone please explain why it is not "violating her [or his] right to
- >>>>bodily autonomy" when we kill the fetus?
- >>>>
- >>>
- >>> [...]
- >>>
- >In order to have bodily autonomy, as it relates to legal protection
- >and the issue of abortion, it is first neecessary to be a person.
-
- Why? We legally protect the lives of some animals, trees, whole ecosystems,
- etc. I see no reason why personhood must be a prerequisite to legally
- protecting a fetus'es BA...
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- - Kevin
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