Re: NBC: Women's right to choose/Supreme Court question

I thought Republicans were for people making their own choices ... not the
government making it for them .. you know .. limited government ... but
obviously that is all lies ... they'd rather spend it all on military then
spend any on social programs at all .. heck ... I thought they were cautious
spenders ... but even when they control the WH & Congress ... they spend
like drunken sailors .... so much for fiscal restraint ...



"Ukes" <duke_of_diddly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mhpem112s5mljedr8pjkrcrri6h84utdvg@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:57:55 GMT, Charlie Board
> <charlieDIESPAMMERSboard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Heck, I suspect
>>if a Federal marshall were to show up at Steve's door
>>tomorrow saying that the government had determined it
>>must take one of his kidneys to save Joe Blow's life
>>in Indiana because Joe Blow's right to life trumps Steve's
>>right to bodily autonomy....well, I suspect Steve himself
>>might actually admit that he agrees.
>>
>
> Why isn't this type of analogy demeaning to women? After all, women
> are not, in the vast majority of cases, unwilling participants in the
> act that causes them to become pregnant. They have freedom to chose
> whether to engage in that act to begin with, and freedom to chose
> whether to use birth contol or not. They are not helpless or incapable
> of making any reproductive choices as the analogy suggests they are.
>
> A more apt analogy would be if Steve chose to donate a kidney to
> Charlie, and later changed his mind, should Steve be able to demand
> and recieve his kidney back from Charlie?
>
> Jerry


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