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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Population control & Freedom
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Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 19:08:34 EDT
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[janw]
>Procreation rights follow simply from one's right to dispose of one's
>own body.  That right is so basic that it must be preserved unless
>you want all other rights to go.  Even the less extreme forms of
>slavery respect it.  It includes the right to conceive and the right
>not to abort.  Together, they form the right to procreate.

Are government-mandated vaccinations and immunizations ever
justifiable, in your view?  This seems like a clear violation of the
alleged absolute right to dispose of one's own body.

Richard Carnes