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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Question for Paul Brinkley.
- Message-ID: <36001@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:01:43 GMT
- References: <lmc1u2INNij5@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <1k6bmsINNg34@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <lme140INNb0t@sahara.cs.utexas.edu>
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- In article <lme140INNb0t@sahara.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- (Paul Brinkley) writes to Adrienne:
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- >Are you saying that I _am_ treating anyone's rights as unimportant? Namely
- >women's? I thought I had made the opposite clear. If not, I shall try
- >again. Do you understand that I am forced to make what appears to me to
- >be a choice between two fundamental rights? If you were forced to choose
- >between two fundamental rights, what would you do?
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- I would examine the situation and think about which rights should take
- precedence. In the case of abortion, I see two entities: a woman and
- a /z/e/f/ which is inside her body. Both are alive. The second
- entity will only remain alive as long as it can use the bodily
- resources of the woman. In general I believe that people are entitled
- to decide whether their bodies will be used to support another life.
- This is why I believe that blood, tissue, and organ donations should
- be voluntary. I believe that even a criminal whose crime injured
- someone should not be compelled to donate bodily resources to save
- that person's life. Similarly, I don't believe that a father should
- be compelled to donate tissue, blood, or organs to save the life of
- his child. Why is it you want to compel non-criminal women to donate
- their bodily resources to support /z/e/f/s they do not wish to
- support?
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