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Reply to Professor Sumner1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Lorenne M.G. Clark
Lorenne M.G. Clark*
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University of Toronto
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , September 1974 , pp. 183 - 190
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1

Presented in substantially this form at the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Kingston, Ontario, June 1973, as a commentary on Professor L. W. Sumner's paper, “Toward a Credible View of Abortion.“

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2 This despite the fact that legally speaking one literally cannot rape one's wife since ‘rape’ is defined as forcible intercourse with a woman other than one's wife, and in the face of the fact that even up to the present a woman had virtually no option but to become someone's wife.

3 It is interesting, however, that while the Criminal Code contains provisions against infanticide, these are rarely invoked against a mother who takes the life of the child within three months following birth. She is simply assumed to be suffering from post-partum psychosis and in need of psychiatric treatment rather than punishment.

4 And by ‘right’ here, I mean ‘claim', such that my having the right entails that someone else has a duty to provide me with that to which I have the right, if I want it.