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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.174122.23826@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <JBATES.93Jan12211615@pinocchio.encore.com> <C19GG9.7q6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <C1C8JH.KK5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:41:22 GMT
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- In article <C1C8JH.KK5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) 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 the argument is that the fetus is not "autonomous", and thus can not
- >*have* "bodily autonomy".
-
- Are you assuming that "autonomy" implies volition? I think it only denotes
- freedom from outside interference (or if, like Larry Margolis, you have a
- problem with the term "interference", substitute "detrimental effects
- from an external source" instead).
-
- - Kevin
-