From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 00:31:38 MDT
Bryan Moss wrote:
>
> If you consider abortion to be a "necessary evil" - morally
> dubious but of great convenience to women - this might seem
> like a compromise. However, if you consider abortion to be
> ethical the above solution is not ethical.
>
Do you assume a fetus is a human being and has all the rights thereof?
At what stage of pregnancy do you assume this is so? Is your argument
for your choice of when this is so verifiable or objective?
Whatever else is in question around abortion one thing is not in
question. The pregnant woman IS a human being and has all rights of
such including the right to choose whether and when to bear a chiled and
to be a mother. It is not quite possible at this time to always manage
to exercise the choice to not get pregnant when you emphatically do not
wish to bear a child. As long as this is so and as long as women are
considered more than breeding vessels they have every right to refuse to
carry a fetus to term. No one's belief that the fetus has as much
rights as the woman and has so many rights that she should be forced to
carry it regardless of her wishes and what it does to her and her life
can be called in my book someone who believes in the "right to life".
They believe in the right to enslave women.
- samantha
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