On Dec 13, 2008, at 1:35 AM, B. wrote:
> Judith Jarvis Thompson's "A Defense of Abortion"...No doubt the
> mother has a right to decide what shall happen in and to her body;
> everyone would grant that...
Not so--few reject the premise of the Drug Laws which is that the state has the right to determine what may or may not happen in and to our bodies. The arguments of drug reformers are "Yes Buttery"-- Medical Marijuana is ok BUT when it comes to nicotine or cocaine...
Incidentally, my favorite two responses to assertions of fetal "personality"-- --Why then do none of you demand that unborn fetuses be counted in the census enumeration of "persons?" --Why did Jesus count it as kosher to drink milk with his egg salad but treif to drink milk with his chicken salad?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos