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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Food for Thought
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 20:24:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 20:24:21 1984
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re: the rights of the father.
I think that the rights of the father are completely irrelevant in the abortion
question.  If we assume that the right of a fetus to live is stronger than the
right of the mother not to go through her pregnancy, then its right to live will
also be stronger than the right of the father not to want it to live.
If we assume that each person has the right to determine what they can or cannot
have in their body, then this precludes the father from having any rights over
the mother's body.

No matter what happens, the father does have one right, and that is to have a
child with a woman who is willing to carry it;  I don't think that
this is what is being debated here and I don't really see why it should be.

				Sophie Quigley
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