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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Torek's SECOND ANNUAL CONCLUSIVE ARGUMENT :->
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:39:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 12:39:16 1985
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> ...it has been successfully argued that a "fetus" can be part
> of the woman's body (which she owns, therefore she owns the fetus)
>                                                >Charles Forsythe<

But do we really 'own' our own bodies?  If we do, why are there laws
against suicide -- as well as against a multitude of other self-harming 
possibilities -- protecting us from ourselves, as it were?  Chew on the
ramifications of THAT for a while.

                                   Just adding another ember to the fire,
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