To: greenspirit who wrote (17084 ) 4/18/2000 3:22:00 AM From: E Read Replies (3) | Respond to
There are, amazingly enough, those who call themselves "conservatives" who would have the government force a woman who has had an egg fertilized a matter of hours or days or three months ago -- even one fertilized by an act of rape or incest, even of a 13 year old child -- to carry that fertilized egg inside her body until it develops, over months, into a human being. I believe Chrisopher Hodgkins is one. I believe that although, unlike CH, he allows for exceptions for incest, rape, and children, Neocon supports government-controlled planning over family planning.own abdomen, Michael, from an act of rape, or as the result of an accident during an act of sex with a person with whom you would not want to be involved in raising a child for twenty years, would you think it intrusive of the government to forbid you to obtain from your doctor a prescription for a pill to abort the embryo or fetus from your abdomen, forcing you to retain it in your abdomen as it grew into a baby, grew larger and larger, until it was, some months later, an infant, and emerged, in a painful process taking many hours and containing some small risk of death, from a nether orifice of yours?atrocious "intrusion into everyday life," in your opinion?
