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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.093753.3864@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 09:37:53 CST
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- In article <lm1g5pINNegu@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
-
- >A _very_ admirable position. As I've said before, religious arguments to
- >support U.S. code just wouldn't apply to anyone not in that religion but
- >still a U.S. citizen. My stance, in that light, is non-religious (unless
- >someone can point out any flaws in my reason): A fetus' liberty is as
- >equally valuable as that of anyone else, and furthermore, when one or
- >the other's liberty must be compromised, the law should choose the least
- >restrictive course.
- >
- How can the fetus' liberty be valuable? Of necessity, it is
- on a very short leash. It is in the nature of a fetus to
- have very little liberty. Whenever I see the argument that
- fetuses should have the same rights/liberties as anyone else,
- I always wonder, how are you going to go about allowing them
- to peaceably assemble?
-
- muriel
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