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[andrewducker]

Re: the previous post with the poll at the bottom.  If you say "other" then I'd be interested to know why, because I'd like to know which bases I didn't cover.

If you don't want to argue about it in public, feel free to drop me an email at andrew@ducker.org.uk and I _promise_ not to argue if you ask me not to.

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Well, you know you didn't cover my base... ;-)

[andrewducker]

I had you down under "abortion is fine, foetuses have no rights", two statements you've stood by.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I don't agree "All abortion is ok" though I certainly agree with "the foetus has no rights". Forced abortion is not okay.

You omitted "It's the pregnant woman's decision, and hers only" from your poll, which is my base. The nearest option, I guess, would have been option three.

[andrewducker]

Aah, I thought the mother's right to choose was implicit in the "abortion is ok" one - after all, if there's no foetus to object, who else is going to be choosing to have the abortion?

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

In some countries, and at some times, the government gets to decide that a woman will have an abortion. In some countries, and at some times, the woman's busband, or his father gets to decide that a woman will have an abortion.

[andrewducker]

Good point.

Number two should have read "The woman has rights to her body, the foetus has none, abortion is always her decision"

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

"the woman's busband"

...duh. Husband, not busband. Or bus-band...