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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Right to Procreate
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:06:12 EDT
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> > >3)  The father's right to procreate (a Constitutional right -- I can
> > >    cite cases) is subordinate to the woman's right to remove the
> > >    fetus from her body.  (MATT ROSENBLATT)
> > 
> > The whole idea that a male's right to produce offspring is higher than
> > the female's NOT to it so fascist I cannot find a less flame-oriented
> > way to respond!  (CHARLES FORSYTHE)
> 
> But once you stop assuming the right to remove the fetus, the same rule
> applies to both man and woman:  You've started something, now let it 
> finish itself -- no abortion.
> 
> 				-- Matt Rosenblatt

That's not what you said though.  You didn't say that both parents have
equal rights, you said that the man has more rights over the woman's body
than she does herself.  The two are not the same.  What I don't understand
is why you bother bringing this up if you believe that above all a fetus
has the right to life.  If it does, than any prioritisation of parents
rights is completely irrelevant.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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