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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (229861)4/19/2005 1:52:44 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1573925
 
That doesn't explain why you say something like "A fetus is not an individual with all the legal rights that individuals have in our society. Regardless of your OPINION on that issue, that's the law." As if the fact that it is law, means it is unalterable settled and everyone should just accept it without a peep of protest, or as if the fact that it is the law makes the law correct.

I understand you are pro-choice but I didn't think you where a legal positivist to the extreme extent of believing no law can be wrong. If you are not than your comment doesn't make much sense.

Well, I think you are reading to much into one sentence - I don't equate the legal system with individual morality, if that is what you are wondering about. People who want to ban abortion are entitled of course to their view.

The sentence you referenced "A fetus is not an individual with all the legal rights that individuals have in our society. Regardless of your OPINION on that issue, that's the law." was a response to all the analogies asking "so do you want to kill the homeless because you don't want them around?" That question equated a fetus to an already born person - my point was that analogy is not accurate, at least legally, since the fetus doesn't have the legal rights that the poor homeless dude does.

And......

I understand you are pro-choice but I didn't think you were a legal positivist to the extreme extent of believing no law can be wrong.

The above is an example of a "straw man" argument.
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