Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: individual control Message-ID: <3564@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 20:49:58 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.3564 Posted: Sat Mar 3 20:49:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 09:03:34 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 16 > 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.) not at all. You could still do anything you want with your *body*. You can still have your kidney removed, and you can still give it away, but you can't sell it. The prohibition is only against the money transaction, not against what you do with your body. Your argument is like saying "If I have my leg amputated, I want to be able to go kill someone by bashing them over the head with the bone. The law says I can't do this, therefore the law prevents me from having control over my own body." Jeff Winslow