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To: Mrs. Don-o

"There are some who would follow up with the question, "Well, granted that the baby is not part of my body, still my womb definitely is: so why can;t I ejecte an embryo or fetus from my womb, just as I would eject an invader from my property?"


You know, I've never heard it phrased like this before. Are there really people who think along these lines?


18 posted on 07/08/2005 6:27:53 PM PDT by wingman1 (University of Vietnam 1970)
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To: wingman1
"There are some who would follow up with the question, "Well, granted that the baby is not part of my body, still my womb definitely is: so why can't I eject an embryo or fetus from my womb, just as I would eject an invader from my property?"

You know, I've never heard it phrased like this before. Are there really people who think along these lines?

Yeah. there sure are. They are generally professional philosophers or medical ethicists.

As George Orwell once noted, some things are so preposterous that only "intellectuals" could believe in them.

Here's another Orwell quote I like: "We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

80 posted on 07/09/2005 9:15:33 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Play fair, play hard, nobody hurt.)
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