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From: johnston@spp1.UUCP (Micheal L. Johnston)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: Aborted Babies as Criminals
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 11:03:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 11:03:23 1985
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> >>What is your "best possible world" scenario?  Maybe we can bypass all the
> >>rhetoric.  I personally don't know anybody who thinks abortion is a game,
> >>to be undertaken on a lark, "hey, everybody ought to go through it once."
> >>The camps seem to be divided between those who consider an unwanted
> >>pregancy a personal issue (I do) and those who consider it a social
> >>issue, open to the discussion and control of society at large.
> >
> >I believe most people see it as both a personal issue and a social issue.
> >Pro-choicers and Pro-lifers see the woman's perspective and can relate.
> >The camps divide because pro-lifers see the infant's overriding rights
> >when it comes right down to it.
> 
> Notice: "infant's overriding rights" was a phrase used.  Pregnant women,
> remember that!  That infant has more rights than you!  That infant has more 
> rights than anything else (except possibly another infant?)!  Perhaps
> we should set up some means of monitoring these pregnant women so that
> they don't even have an opportunity to threaten that infant's rights!
> Perhaps, even women who just had sex should be monitored as well, who
> knows, they might be pregnant!
> -- 
> James C. Armstrong, Jnr.  ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

Read it again. Quantity wasn't discussed. The idea is a priority of
rights. The right to life having a greater priority (as our founding
fathers saw it) than the right to have complete freedom over one's body.
Both rights should be able to coexist. When there is a conflict by which
only one of the rights may survive is where the priority hand is played.

			Mike Johnston