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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: It's still mine
Message-ID: <746@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 12:31:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 12:31:30 1986
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> In article <madvax.444> susan@madvax.UUCP (Susan Finkelman) writes:
> That's like saying "If I have a child it's my child and my choice..."
> Seriously though, folks, the fact is, we don't always have total choice
> over what we do to/with our own bodies.  For example, we are not allowed
> to pump our veins full of controlled substances.  (I'm not arguing what we
> have the ABILITY to do, only our LEGAL/MORAL responsibilities.)  We're not
> allowed to use our bodies for prostitution, or to hurt other people.

Certainly you're correct on these laws, for the most part (prostitution
being legal in parts of Nevada still, I believe).  And I believe we have
a moral responsibility not to go bothering other people.  But the laws
concerning prostitution and controlled substances are not only an
immoral invation of my personal privacy, they're not effective.  They
only remove the sales of such items from legal business folks to organized
crime.

> 
> Doug Pase   --   ...ucbvax!tektronix!ogcvax!pase   or   pase@Oregon-Grad
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	"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and
	 for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
							-Gotama Buddha

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