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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Some Doctors agree with Arndt, . . . Gosh!  But!
Message-ID: <221@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 08:52:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: cylixd.221
Posted: Mon Aug 26 08:52:11 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 02:24:05 EDT
References: <3658@decwrl.UUCP> <378@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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Summary: 

In article <378@aero.ARPA> foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy (Veh. Systems)) writes:
>
>I reiterate however that I am a man and thus this is provided for information
>only. I don't believe that men should have any say in the question of
>abortion.

Mr. Foy has said this a number of times.  If he doesn't want to have any
say in the argument, that's his business (and it makes me wonder why he
posts to this news-group, since it is not hard to infer his position 
from his statements).  

However, the statements "men should have no say in the question of 
abortion" seems to me to be logically equivalent to any of the 
following statements:

"Persons living in north of the Mason-Dixon line should have had no
say in the question of slavery."  Abolition affected (and may have
caused economic harm to) Southern slave-owners, not northerners.

"Persons living in the United States (Canada, Europe) shoud have no
say in the question of apartheid."  

"Persons . . . "

Well, you get my point.  If a person believes a question is a matter of
morality, not a question of economics or convenience, then his sex,
race, nationality, and the like do not affect whether he is competent to
address the question.  (Admittedly, his sex, race, nationality, and the
like may be important to his opinion, and may need to be considered when
evaluating the validity or importance of his opinion.)

		charli