The Cincinnati Enquirer |
Editorial Page
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Nov. 6, 1998 |
| I can but trust that one will seriously reflect on the following rather than regard it merely as the ruminations of a rabid, radical right-wing, right-to-life Republican zealot.
Even more so than in the past, the following two phrases were bandied about during the election season ruckus: "A woman’s body...a woman’s choice," and "whatever two consenting adults do..." If a woman has the right to expunge, eradicate, expel or eject, via abortion, some amorphous substance from her body solely as a matter of choice, why then do I not have this same right to imbibe, inhale, ingest, or inject into my body a substance of my choice? My body...my choice. Suicide next? It logically follows. |
If two consenting adults, why not five or ten? Why not an orgy - with all consenting adults, of course. Do we then condone consensual polygamy?
The key words are not the references to gender or to the numbers, but rather to my body, my choice and consenting adults. O Tempora - O Mores.
Joseph F. Froehle, Western Hills
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