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- From: sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steven Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:48:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.051915.10666@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- |> 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:
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- |> >|> 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. ;-)
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- OK, what do you say about people in a coma? Are they persons with human
- rights, or not?
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- Steve
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