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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The Status of the Fetus and Its Rights
Message-ID: <1728@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 00:23:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 00:23:42 1985
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In article <690@ihu1m.UUCP> jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) writes:

>I think you got it right.  The abortion issue is a clash between two sets of
>moral values.  However, I think the positions of the pro-lifers and
>pro-choicers are asymmetrical.  Whereas the anti-abortionist are trying
>to impose their moral code on the pro-choice side, the pro-choice side
>does not attempt to coerce the other side to conform to its moral code.

I don't see why this makes any difference.  To make the pro-life analogy for
a moment (equating aborting mothers with rapists and fetuses with the
victims), we get a situation which is equally assymetrical.

Charley Wingate


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