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From: silver@csu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Abortion -- where will the line be drawn?
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Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 00:27:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  9 00:27:24 1983
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Liz asks, in reference to fetal rights,  "where will the line be drawn"?
Listen, that  argument is wonderful and  thoughtful  and warm, but it is
NOT  REALISTIC!  People  disagree;  societies  DO draw  lines; life is a
series of compromises.

Smokers can pollute my part of the public air, directly interfering with
my life, but the same society that permits that won't let me burn leaves
in my back yard because of the consequences to others.  (To me, only the
latter  makes  sense, but I hope you seen the  point.) If my wife has an
abortion, that has NO impact on your life.  In fact, quite the contrary,
for a person never born cannot in any way infringe on you.

If you want to limit my  freedoms,  you had  better at least have a good
argument for why you stand to gain thereby.

Alan Silverstein