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From: jfh@phs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: individual control
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 13:14:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 13:14:46 1984
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	Since the abortion "debate" has been conducted in this news group
I'll post this here....


	There is a move afoot in the congress to regulate organ donations
at the federal level.  One of the proposed provisions would prohibit the
sale of any body parts.  The supposed rationale for this is to prevent
the poor from becoming "spare parts heaps" for the rich.

	How do you feel about this?

	Now let me point out that this provision effectively prohibits people
from exercising control over their own bodies.  (I need money, I want to sell
one of my kidneys, but I can't because its against the law.)

	Now how do you feel about it?

	It seems to me that any proponent of abortion  who uses the "control
over ones own body" argument would have to be opposed to this regulation.
Can you justify one position but not the other?  Rational comments on this
(or any other) subject are welcome.  Flames to /dev/null.

					Nobody said it was easy,

					Fran Heidlage
					duke!phs!jfh