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To: lorrie coey who wrote (15223)	3/14/2000 8:44:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The analogy is actually precise. If she can be held accountable for abandoning the child, which means, in essence, forcing her to provide for it for some period of time, she can be forced to carry it. There are only two possible issues: was her condition forced upon her? But the rape/incest exceptions take care of that objection. Otherwise, although she may not have intended the pregnancy, she nevertheless ran the risk. Second, is the issue of sufficient magnitude to exert control over her actions? But if she is carrying an infant, it is (I am now arguing narrowly about late term abortions, where the development of the child is clear)..... By the way, I think that the "autonomy" argument is the only one with even a little plausibility. I am glad that you relied on it....... To focus on the point that "gestation involves a bit more than 'caretaking'": the relationship is not purely parasitic, as the woman is built for it, and normally thrives in the process. It is closer to symbiotic. But since pregnancy is unique in a couple of ways, the question is what, for purposes of moral reasoning, does it most resemble? If it most resembles parasitism, than there may be something to permitting a right to terminate support, although it is not clear that it would extend absolutely. If it most resembles enforcing responsibility, as in the case of disallowing abandonment after birth, then there is no right to terminate support. I have argued that if the pregnancy originates out of presumptively consensual sex, and to the extent that humanity is attributed to (or suspected of) the fetus, society has a right to discourage, to the point of legal sanction, the practice of abortion.......