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Subject: 
Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
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Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:18:02 GMT
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Scott A wrote:

> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > The whole problem of the abortion debate is that it is actually *two*
> > debates intertwined into one.  One, whether the government has the right
> > to tell one what one can do with one's body (most would say no),
> 
> This issue aside, I can't agree with this. Goverment should also protect us
> from ourselves. If one were to decide to take ones own life, one would
> expect "government" to get involved.

Why should we EXPECT government to get involved with a choice over our own
lives, if it does not affect others?

That's just plain WRONG.


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  Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) This issue aside, I can't agree with this. Goverment should also protect us from ourselves. If one were to decide to take ones own life, one would expect "government" to get involved. (...) Perhaps. However, a man was democratically executed (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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