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Thread #104170   Message #2137704
Posted By: Amos
31-Aug-07 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mutual respect
Subject: RE: BS: Mutual respect
Actually, not exactly -- you argue from the way the law usually works outside the womb, and then seek to extend it to a "citizen in a womb" as though it were the same context.

It is not the same context, and the impulse to make it the same in disregard of all the differneces verges on the simple-minded.

Bruce, I have said over and over that what I am offering, like the views of anyone else, is opinion, and that there seems to be no yardstick outside of that available for anyone.

I believe Roe vs. Wade is a s good a legal stance as we can get on the subject; stare decisis.

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