Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who has the right over our bodies? Message-ID: <7330@watmath.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 20:49:23 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.7330 Posted: Wed Mar 21 20:49:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 02:14:49 EST References: <581@ihuxn.UUCP>, <2050@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25 I think the question of control of one's body vs life of somebody else can be worded in the following way: Does the "state" have the right to force a person to lend part of their body to save someone else's life? If we accept this right of the state in the case of abortion, then to be consistent we must accept it for other cases such as donations of blood, bone marrow, or certain organs. I will now turn the tables and ask pro-lifers (people who believe that the state has this right) the very same question that they love to ask pro-choicers: "where does one draw the line?" I think that the state's withdrawal of people's right to control their own bodies is as potentially dangerous for society in general as is the state's withdrawal of protection of all life. I think that what all this boils down to the question: what is more important, the right to live or the right to control our own bodies? no matter which one we choose, we lose, so it is just a question of determining how we want to lose. As far as I am concerned I prefer to die because somebody will not give me part of their body I need to survive rather than live with the knowledge that at any time in my life I will be forced to give up some part of my body for somebody else's sake. Sophie Quigley ...!{decvax,allegra}!watmath!saquigley