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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: RE: S. Freemans' reply to Birth Control by Abortion
Message-ID: <21@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 15:06:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 15:06:42 1984
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> I have been presented with the "you're a man, you can't get pregnant, you
> don't understand" argument many times. It is possible that a man can make a
> more unbiased judgement regarding abortion because he can't get pregnant. He
> is not subject to the emotional stress and physical discomfort of a wanted
> or unwanted pregnancy and therefore can look beyond the self-centered
> attitudes that seem to foster most of the desires for an abortion.

Right.  And a white can make a more unbiased judgment regarding
discrimination against blacks because he isn't liable to it.  He is not
subject to the emotional stress and physical discomfort of being
discriminated against and therefore can look beyond the self-centered
attitudes that seem to foster most of the desires for equality.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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