Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: Re: A little light humor. Or, p Message-ID: <985@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 10:13:01 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.985 Posted: Fri Sep 28 10:13:01 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 03:36:12 EDT References: <939@ut-ngp.UUCP> <47700015@hpfcla.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 19 >The tent allegory is incomplete. The tent (fetus) has been pitched *with* >permission. Remember, there had to be intercourse between consenting >people in order for the fetus to get there... > > Steve Wolf It is possible to have intercourse and at the same time deliberately attempt to prevent conception; in fact these attempts (when the methods are used correctly) work most of the time. Thus it is fallacious to argue that consent to intercourse is necessarily consent to pregnancy, because the second is not a necessary result of the first. The very existence and use of contraception indicates that people consent to intercourse *without* consenting to pregnancy. -- "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs" Ken Montgomery ...!{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]