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[Ron Szoke]

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INTERNATIONAL / AMERICAS   | March 28, 2009 
Amid Abuse of Girls in Brazil, Abortion Debate Flares 
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO 

The case of a 9-year-old who had an abortion after saying she was raped has 
revived a debate over abortion rights. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?
emc=eta1

Comments:  

1.  Is "pro-life" an euphemism?  For what, exactly?

2.  Is all surgery on female bodies "violence against women?"   On only on 
pregnant women?  Or only on certain parts of pregnant women?  How do you 
decide?  (Suppose the surgery is to remove a tapeworm.)

3.  Note that my question was:  Are there any good philosophical arguments for 
the view that abortion is NOT wrong?  It was NOT a request for a general 
argument in support of abortion, only of abortion RIGHTS -- a very different 
matter.  There was no response to the question.  

4.  Once again, we have seen only slogans, doctrines & evasions on the 
question of how far the "pro-life" people are willing to go in preventing or 
punishing abortion.  Should those who engage in it  ultimately have to face the 
guns & billyclubs of the police for having broken the law?  What if the woman 
has been raped, is a victim of incest, or her life is endangered by the 
pregnancy?

Will we now receive yet another dose of slogans,  metaphysical doctrines, 
evasions, red herrings & idealistic effusions  in response?  Watch this space.  

-- Ron