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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (15898)11/24/1998 9:58:00 PM
From: Peter O'Brien  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
>She cannot typically allow the child to die. Someone has to
>take decisive action to kill the child. That someone
>will not necessarily be the rapist.

Yes, this is the main argument against it. Not all people
who call themselves "pro-life" agree on this issue, but
you acknowledge that such an argument can at least be
made while still respecting the basic "pro-life" position.

Because of the uniqueness of the mother/fetus relationship,
any analogy is necessarily tortured, but consider this
"thought experiment":

Person A is injured in an auto accident. Person B has nothing
to do with the accident and doesn't even know person A.
Person A requires blood transfusions to survive. However,
person A has an extremely rare blood type, and the only
other person in the world known to be an acceptable donor
is person B. Knowing this, the paramedics bring person A over
to person B's house in the middle of the night, and hook up
person A to person B while person B is sleeping. Question:
When person B wakes up, can person B request that the
connection be broken (thereby resulting in person A's
death), or does the government have the right to force
person B to provide all necessary blood donations?
Question: Does your answer change if the circumstances
are changed so that instead of being injured in an auto
accident, person A was assaulted and stabbed by person B
(in other words, person B is responsible for person A's
condition)?
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