[lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sat Jan 17 22:35:03 PST 2004


Quoting "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>:


> Passage through the birth canal makes a potential human being an actual
> one?

It's for the mother to decide, because, when all is said and done, the fetus is part of her body. Pregnancy and childbirth -- whether naturally or by C-section -- are massive impositions on the mother's body. Why should the rights of a potential subject trump the rights of actually existing subjects?

-- DRR



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