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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The issue is abortion, not choice
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:41:12 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- In article <C1HKFw.38v@hpchase.rose.hp.com> hamilton@mothra.rose.hp.com (Steve Hamilton) writes:
- > I guess my point is, why do we give a magical "right" to a baby outside
- > the womb, and none to the baby in the womb.
-
- Because one is outside the womb and the other isn't.
-
- Of what practical use is 'autonomy' when the fetus is necessarily confined
- within the boundaries of a human being? How does one practice a 'right to
- life' when one is causing grave physical harm to it's host, who doesn't want
- it?
-
- Check that: one isn't merely outside the womb and the other isn't. Rather,
- one is outside the WOMAN and the other isn't.
-
- The only way this *doesn't* matter is if the woman doesn't matter.
-
- I happen to think she does.
-
- Adrienne Regard
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