#Woman's right to choose
21-Dec-94 01:35:12
Sb: #179002-#Woman's right to choose
Fm: Dominick J. Fontana 74766,2154
To: Paul Idol 71024,3245
> Gee, woosh, I feel much better now Dom, thanks for shaking me out of
it! You're right – womens' bodies are OUR property! What was I thinking?
8^)
No need to be sarcastic, Paul. 😎 We just disagree. The fact is
that the abortion decision is NOT based at all on the issue that a
woman's body is her property. The issue centers on the rights of the
unborn fetus and has absolutely nothing to do with women's bodies.
Also, this has nothing to do with whether you are for abortion or
against it. I was just pointing out that the mere fact that a woman
happens to carry the baby is basically irrelevant to the court in
determining abortion rights. Abortions are prohibited in months 7-9 of
the pregnancy. At that point, is a woman's body any less her property
than it was during months 1-6? No, but yet abortions are still
illegal during months 7-9. If the issue was women's bodies, then
abortions would always be legal. The fact that they are not legal
during the third trimester simply shows that women's bodies are not
the issue. The court is concerned with the rights of the unborn fetus
and not with a woman's body.