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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Madelyn's question
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 10:20:38 EST
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> By the same logic, society is oppressing your "free will" by insisting that you
> take responsibility for anyone that you might injure when driving.  CHOICES and
> CONSEQUENCES go hand-in-hand.  The reason that abortion should be illegal is
> that it forces someone else (the baby) to give up their most fundamental right
> (the right to life) so that you might avoid the CONSEQUENCES of your CHOICE.

This type of argument is sometimes called "assuming what you wish to prove."
Either a fetus is a human being or not.  Either way, the above
argument is irrelevant.