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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:45:23 GMT
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Thanks James
"James Simpson" <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
> >
> > > > My rotten traitorous wife voted for Gore because she doesn't want Roe • v. Wade
> > > > overturned. ;-)
> >
> > > > For some of us that IS the issue which overrides everything else in • this
> > > > election!
> >
> > > You're absolutely right! Some of us want that law overturned! ;^ • Anyway, I'm
> > > not trying to start an abortion debate...only making my voice heard.
> >
> > Yes indeed. It would be a terrible shame if women retained sovereignty
> > over their own bodies.
>
> I cringe at the thought of the lengths of a thread encompassing an • abortion-
> debate. I made my abortion comment because I do not want this forum to be • a
> place where "minority" or dissenting viewpoints (such as mine) are not
> tolerated. For my part, I will be glad to debate this issue to the nth • degree,
> although I doubt that it shall serve to change any minds on either side. • Thus
> said, I will reply to you in brief:
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> While it is true that a woman may do as she pleases with her own body, it • does
> not therefore follow that she may do as she see's fit with her baby's • body. If
> a conception is the result of an un-coerced freely-made consent to sexual
> intercourse, then, yes, a woman's sovereign control of her body must • indeed be
> limited by the right of the life within her to exist and grow to the • maturity of
> personhood and sentience which are latent within that new life. That's my • two-
> dollar bill.
>
> James
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| (...) I don't want to add fuel to a debate over the right to choice either since I'm certain no one's viewpoint will be swayed, but I would like some clarification. Are you thanking James for expressing an opinion with which you agree? If that is (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I cringe at the thought of the lengths of a thread encompassing an abortion- debate. I made my abortion comment because I do not want this forum to be a place where "minority" or dissenting viewpoints (such as mine) are not tolerated. For my (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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