File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9801, message 504


Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 02:58:34 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Abortion and Morality


Justin in reply to Yoshie!
>
>Why can't it be both? You don't have to go all the way with MacKinnon and
>deny taht women are incapable of autonomous moral reasoning.The emotional
>issues around abortion are hard. So are the intellectual issues, which in
>part accounts of the alleged schizophrenia you and Boddhi see in people's
>attitudes. It's quite possible for a reasonable person to come to an a
>prolife position without making any obvious errors. 

"Autonomous moral reasoning" my ass! As if this issue can be put above the 
institutions that create the moral fabric of society! I doubt this very much 
Justin..

And as to whether people come to a "prolife" decision I believe that Communists
must argue for the actual rights of the living and not potential life..

Warm regards
Bob Malecki



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