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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: freedom/responsibility
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 17:38:56 EDT
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>> Every freedom carries responsibility with it.  If you want the freedom,
>> you had best be ready for the responsibility.
>> 
>> 				Jean Marie Diaz
> 
> I've heard this unsupported assertion all over the place, and I have
> no idea why people keep on saying it.  Please tell me:
> 
> 1)  What is your evidence that every freedom possesses a corresponding
> responsibility?

  Spare me.  What do you want, a professional study?  I won't have the
  tools for another 4 years or so.

> 2) Why should a freedom be so linked?
 
  Because otherwise, *my* freedoms collide with the equally valid
  freedoms of *others*.  It's the old "my freedom to swing my fist
  ends where your nose begins" example.  Perhaps we should change 
  it to say "Every freedom carries with it the responsibility not 
  to encroach on the freedoms of others."  Can you agree with that?
  Comments, anyone?
  
> In the case being argued in this newsgroup, people are saying
> things like, "Freedom to engage in sexual intercourse carries the
> corresponding responsibility to be prepared to use contraceptives
> or care for a child."  How is this more true than saying, "Freedom
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I haven't ignored the possibility of adoption--why do you?

> to engage in sexual intercourse carries the corresponding responsibility
> to be prepared to have an abortion." (?)
> 
> Mike Gray

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					AMBAR
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