Beeson & Singer/ prenatal diagnosis
Gordon Fitch
gcf at panix.com
Wed Aug 8 08:09:10 PDT 2001
Jim Farmelant:
> ...
> And I remain puzzled how Marta can still regard
> herself to be pro-choice in regards to abortion,
> since she apparently thinks that many if not most
> abortions are done for trivial or otherwise morally
> and politically unacceptable reasons. And Nat Hentoff
> as I recall does call himself "pro-life" on the abortion
> issue.
She probably distinguishes between the right or freedom to
do something, and the value of doing it. This seems to me
like an almost primordial intellectual move for non-
totalitarians, so I am puzzled at your puzzlement.
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