From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!cornell!vax135!ariel!hou5f!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!hocda!spanky!ka Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Re: pro-choice groups Article-I.D.: spanky.238 Posted: Thu Mar 10 01:12:49 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 08:54:28 1983 References: trsvax.225,tekmdp.1800 brunix.1836 [This is a followup to an article in net.women; I posted it here because I feel that the abortion debate doesn't belong in net.women] The U. S. Supreme Court was pretty perceptive when it defined a fetus as having life or potential life (they admitted they didn't know which), but not as being a "person" as the word is used in the 14th amendment. I would guess that most of the 53% of the nation who reject the extreme positions on abortion agree with the court's reasoning that a fetus is not a human being, but deserves some protection because it has the poten- tial to become one. Kenneth Almquist