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To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (633)	2/26/2001 5:49:18 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) of 948

>Is there any circumstance under which you feel abortion is justifiable? I'm generally pro-life, but I think a logical case can be made for an exception in the case of rape. Consider the following hypothetical: Person A attacks and stabs Person B. Person B is rushed to the hospital, and it is determined that Person B will need an immediate blood donation (and some operations that will require a series of transfusions over the next nine months) in order to survive. Person B has an extremely rare blood type. In fact, in a strange coincidence, it turns out that Person A is the only other person in the world with the same blood type. The blood donations required by Person B would not be fatal to person A. Is Person A's right to their own body absolute? Or, can the government force person A to give blood donations to save the life of Person B? Does your answer change if the only other possible blood donor is a completely unrelated Person C (instead of Person A)? Person C would certainly be a "good Samaritan" to donate blood to save the life of Person B. But should the government be able to force Person C to donate blood?

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