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Subject:	Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:38:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: > 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. Not this one. Suicide should be a right. Chris

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		Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
(...) So if knew a pesron was about to take their own life, you'd let them on the basis that you consider they should have the right to do so?! I'd tend to try to stop them. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
(...) I'd agree... Assuming of course that the person is of sound mind, and that the rights of others are not being violated in doing so. Clear cut example, I don't have the right to fill up a truck with explosives and then drive to your house and (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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