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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.202231.24869@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan23.012237.16583@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan24.071723.22079@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.160628.11244@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:22:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.160628.11244@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.071723.22079@netcom.com>
- >ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>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?
- >
- >>> 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.
- >
- >> Can you explain why abortion is morally proscribed even when it
- >> DOESN'T violate the fetus's right to bodily autonomy?
- >
- >As I told Ms. Regard, anti-abortionists generally have premises
- >which lead them to oppose abortion regardless of the failings of
- >pro-choice premises such as 'bodily autonomy'. I have always
- >felt that parents should be held responsible for the well-being
- >of their children.
-
- Are you against parents giving up their child to adoption, then?
-
- Oh, if you're ready to launch into a fine distinction between "abandonment"
- and "giving up for adoption", perhaps you might consider that parents who
- decide to give up a child in their custody to adoption are generally required
- to arrange care for it for only a few days or weeks (which they could pay a
- nanny to do), whereas an unwanted pregnancy lasts about 9 months, imposes much
- more burden, which is NOT, practically speaking, delegable at all. Furthermore,
- consider that this "transitional care" that a custodial parent is held
- responsible for, can be seen as something the parent(s) implicitly agree to
- when they take custody of the child, whereas it's highly-questionable whether
- ANY aspect of parenting is implicitly consented-to when a couple engages in
- sex...
-
- - Kevin
-