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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Re: Who has the right over our bodies?
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 01:54:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 01:54:43 1984
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I don't think that I matter much to ``the world'' at all. I matter to
ME, though, and I matter to a few individuals out there. I do not view
my worthwhileness as a measure of how much I matter to other people.
There have been times when I was fairly well convinced that nobody
at all out there gave a damn about me, except me. I may have been wrong
in this belief, but even if I were not I believe that my worthwhileness
would not have been effected one iota.

Thus saying that I ma more worthwhile than a fetus simply because I
matter to more people than the fetus does is a mistake. It is 
*because* I am worthwhile that I matter to certain people, not the
converse.

I believe that worthwhileness goes with being human. (other things
besides human beings are worthwhile, but human beings are by definition.)
Therefore, killing a fetus is killing something worthwhile if it is
a human being. If the fetus is a human being and the pregnant woman
has an abortion believing that it is not, then she has made a mistake.
If you do not belive that I am worthwhile then you are making a
mistake. It may be easierr to make this mistake in the case of a fetus
than in the casee of myself, but the mistake will be the same.
-- 
Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura

	"Capitalism is a lot of fun. If you aren't having fun, then
	 you're not doing it right."		-- toad terrific