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- From: sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steven Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
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- Message-ID: <Jan26.010511.74729@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:05:11 GMT
- References: <lm16jfINNe66@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <adams.727758048@spssig> <lm1g5pINNegu@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <1993Jan25.093753.3864@hemlock.cray.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.093753.3864@hemlock.cray.com>, mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
- |> In article <lm1g5pINNegu@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
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- |> >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?
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- The same thing could be said about paraplegics...
- Lack of capacity to exercize rights does not imply no rights.
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- Steve
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