From: bakunin-AT-hushmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:12:39 -0600 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Pro-Life Anarchists?



At Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:03:09 -0000, Mikael Birket Brilner <Brilner-AT-mail.tele.dk> 
wrote:

>> 
>> Wow.. is this for real?
>> 
>> http://www.mindspring.com/~anarchsforlife/afl.htm
>> 
>>  - JH
>> 
>> 
>> 
>Well, I for one agree with them in principle. Every life has intrinsic 
>value. In a society with working anarchy the rights of even a embryo 
>overrides that of the mother, she and her partner shouldn't have got 
>her pregnant if they didn't want a child and if she then is pregnant 
>anyway by mistake - that's the risk in life, they shouldn't have taken 
>that chance if they're not prepared to accept even the minimal chance 
>of her getting pregnant. 
>But aren't there exceptions - well only one that I'll accept, the one 
>where the life of the mother is in danger - in any other case both she 
>and the unborn child will survive to see the light of a new day.
>As for the present day I'm some what for pro-abortion, it's not a good 
>world to bring up a child in.
>
>Mikkel

When you say, "Every life has intrinsic value", are you refering to *human* 
life only, or intelligent life, or mammalian life, or any self-aware life,
 or any life that looks like a human, or do you really mean ALL life, including 
every critter, plant, bacteria, and parasite?  Every fucked up genetic monster? 
 Would your definition of life extend to machines that are self-aware?
 So anyway, to throw out my opinion on the matter, the relationship between 
a pregnant woman and a fetus is parasitical.  The woman, and the woman alone,
 should be able to decide to be rid of the parasite at any time, for any 
reason.  Period.

   
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