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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.051915.10666@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:19:15 GMT
- References: <lm1g5pINNegu@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <1993Jan25.093753.3864@hemlock.cray.com> <Jan26.010511.74729@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Jan26.010511.74729@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steven Arnold) writes:
- >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:
- >|>
- >|> >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?
- >
- > The same thing could be said about paraplegics...
- > Lack of capacity to exercize rights does not imply no rights.
- >
- >Steve
-
- Steve, Paraplegics, having lost the use of only two limbs, do not
- generally have any significant difficulty exerting their rights,
- especially since the ADA passed. They certainly don't have any
- difficulty 'peaceably assembl[ing]', as long as you don't ask them to
- meet while jogging or somethign silly like that. ;-)
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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