Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!duke!phs!jfh From: jfh@phs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: individual control Message-ID: <2203@phs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 13:14:46 EST Article-I.D.: phs.2203 Posted: Thu Mar 1 13:14:46 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 23:44:58 EST Lines: 28 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