Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!plunkett From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: On Laying Eggs, Art, and Confusion Message-ID: <1792@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 12:29:59 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1792 Posted: Fri Mar 9 12:29:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 12:43:09 EST Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 25 . If women laid eggs, scrambling them would be illegal. It helps a whole lot in having a new human develop hidden in the darkness of a womens' womb. That way it may be vacuumed up and quickly whipped out of sight, no ugly mess, no visible loss, no items to be counted in a basket. Did you hear of the following recent case, which we could entitle, "Yes, But Is It Art?". Seems a lady artist incorporated into an abstract painting a jar containing an aborted human fetus. One imagines the entire work made some artistic statement regarding the ethics of abortion. It caused quite a fuss amongst local authorities and various citizens groups. Too offensive; "pornographic" by some peoples definition. Pro- and anti-abortion folks were equally put out. It was discovered in state law that the display of a dead human being is illegal, and thus moves were afoot to remove the art work from public view. The irony, in post-Roe vs. Wade America, perhaps indicates a level of hypocrisy and moral confusion as should sicken any thinking person. -- ..{allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett