Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece From: preece@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: An old topic: abortion - (nf) Message-ID: <5981@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 23:03:42 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5981 Posted: Thu Mar 1 23:03:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 09:42:13 EST Lines: 17 #R:watmath:-690400:uicsl:16400049:000:723 uicsl!preece Mar 1 20:39:00 1984 I can't agree that sexual activity implies consent to pregnancy. The individual may, in fact, have made a good faith effort to avoid pregnancy or, to use the hoariest example, been an unwilling participant in the act. The three-year old baby is also the result of the same degree of consent and still has no legal right to the use of its mother's body. If you say a fetus has a right to use its mother's womb because death is the only other outcome you must also say that the three year old with incurable kidney disease and no other viable donor has that same right to one of its mother's kidneys. No court has accepted such an argument. One's body must be absolutely one's own. scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece