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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: An old topic: abortion - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 23:03:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 23:03:42 1984
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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
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