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Politics : The abortion issue: pro-choice vs. anti-abortion

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To: LLCF who wrote (111)	10/15/2008 2:14:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 286

This is pretty much the cruxt of the issue. Of course the POINT of "womans right to chose" is exactly that the mother DOES and in fact is THE ONLY ONE that has "special" status in determining the issue. If you assume that fetal rights don't exist, or are unimportant or irrelevant, then you would be correct. If you assume the opposite, then you would be wrong, the mother doesn't have special status in determining natural/human rights. The question is which assumption is correct. In other words you start out the argument with neither idea assumed as a precondition for the discussion. Given that starting condition the mother doesn't have a special status in that determination. Where she does have a special status, is in the context of the current legal regimes in the US and many other countries, that assumes 1 - The fetus has no rights, and 2 - That the rights of people besides the fetus and the mother, are trumped by the rights of the mother (BTW I basically agree with #2). But we aren't determining what the current legal setup says (or if we are it would be a short conversation), but discussing what it should be.

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