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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.053225.28717@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan24.055119.15266@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan24.173003.23723@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan24.220813.12535@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:32:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.220813.12535@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.173003.23723@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>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...
- >>
- >I guess you missed the part where it says 'and the issue of abortion'
- >Kebbin. Or are you now prepared to present evidence of a law which
- >prohibts the abortion of a non-human species?
-
- I was drawing a legal analogy from non-abortion laws to abortion laws, Mark.
- Fact is, we protect the "autonomy" of all sorts of life that doesn't qualify
- as "a person". So your assertion that "it is first necessary to be a person"
- would appear to be full of shit.
-
- >I predict you'll try to weasle out ofthe question, probably by
- >deleting this portion of the article.
-
- _What_ question? :-)
-
- Seriously, if you can't tell the difference between choosing one's words
- carefully when accusing someone of a criminal act, on the one hand, and making
- fine linguistic distinctions between various forms of psychological personality
- disorders in the midst of Yet Another Abstract Net.debate, on the other, I
- think you have some seriously screwed-up priorities there, Mark...
-
- - Kevin
-