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To: Elroy who wrote (211655)	1/3/2007 11:19:35 AM
From: E	Respond to of 281500

What I wrote is that the majority doesn't automatically get to force the minority to heel. I also said why I disagree with your position in support of forced gestation for an unwilling minority if the majority voted to do that to them. I assume that you would oppose "majority rule" if the proposition were forcing abortion on a minority if the majority voted to do that? (In fact, note that no one is proposing that those who support mandatory gestation be forced to have abortions.) Again: Is the majority justified in using the power of the state to mandate gestation for members of a minority? Not imo if they weren't justified in forbidding people of different races to marry [What do you think about that issue, Elroy? And about Prohibition?]... What is the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" if someone can vote themselves the 'right' to colonize your very uterus...? The idea of government-mandated gestation feels to me very like the Chinese mandated abortion-program instituted to enforce the one-child family policy. Same idea: the state forces its powerful fist into your uterus...