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To: St. Johann Tetzel
So why do some people advocate Capital Punishment for the other innocent victim of rape, not the woman but the baby so conceived?

Because a person has no obligation to support the life of another or to risk her own life in support of another if that obligation was not first entered into with the consent of the person.

If a woman has consensual sex and ends up becoming pregnant, the consensual act of sex is a consensual entering into an obligation to support any child conceived from that sex. She entered into the obligation to support the life of the conceived baby by having consensual sex.

A rape victim has not entered into such a consensual obligation and has no such obligation. Just as you would have no obligation to stay on that gurney in my example.
24 posted on 05/06/2005 8:00:06 AM PDT by BikerNYC
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To: BikerNYC
Because a person has no obligation to support the life of another or to risk her own life in support of another if that obligation was not first entered into with the consent of the person.

The God-given Right to Life recognized by our Founding Fathers supercedes the consent of those so inconvenienced.

A baby's right to life trumps a woman's right to consent. Its the not baby's fault that a criminal violated the mother's right to consent, and the baby should not be sentenced to death for the crime/sin of the rapist.

26 posted on 05/06/2005 8:28:37 AM PDT by St. Johann Tetzel (Sometimes "Defending the Faith" means you have to be willing to get your hands dirty...)
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To: BikerNYC

Fact: I did not consent to be born.

Question: Do I have a moral obligation to care for my parents if they become capacitated later in life - either by caring for them personally or taking on the financial burden for someone else to?

or

Would it be immoral to leave them to lay in their own waste, uncared for in a deteriorating and inhuman environment?

Can I argue, with a clear conscience, since I did not consent to be born, I don't have a moral obligation?


27 posted on 05/06/2005 8:31:32 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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