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To: Hajman
But when you take into consideration what rights there are, the mother has none that trumps the fetus' right to life.

You can't have this simply by stating it over and over. The fetuses right to life is substantially diminished compared to a full citizen, and does not automatically outweigh the mother's enslavement, battery, and theft of service. The right to life is not a binary switch, with only two values. It it something requiring adjudication.

147 posted on 03/12/2002 3:51:18 PM PST by donh
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To: donh
You can't have this simply by stating it over and over. The fetuses right to life is substantially diminished compared to a full citizen,

You do realize that the right to life of any person is independent upon his/her citizenship don't you? You can't murder a non-citizen without being called on it (unless it's a fetus, a very specific case). That claim is demonstratably false.

, and does not automatically outweigh the mother's enslavement, battery, and theft of service. The right to life is not a binary switch, with only two values. It it something requiring adjudication.

Enslavement, battery and theft of service? Oh boy, now you've really gone off the deep end with emotional arguments. In a biological mother-child relationship, those don't apply. Do you really think feelings trump biology and the right to life? That's what you're suggesting. Also, enslavement could be applied to mothers, if you were to go with this invalid logic. In that case, born children could be killed. Going to be consistent?

-The Hajman-
153 posted on 03/12/2002 4:01:02 PM PST by Hajman
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