Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!oliven!barb From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Torek's SECOND ANNUAL CONCLUSIVE ARGUMENT :-> Message-ID: <390@oliven.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:39:16 EDT Article-I.D.: oliven.390 Posted: Tue Aug 20 12:39:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:47:31 EDT References: <789@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1012@noscvax.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 20 > ...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, ___________________ ______________\ ___________ | ______ / . / / o .ooo. ./ /. . o@ooo0 .ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo Barb oo..oo oo...ooo ooo..ooo \ .oo oo oooooo oooooo ooo ooo