From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!meyer
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Re: Rational Argument Against Abortion
Article-I.D.: yale-com.750
Posted: Sat Jan 29 09:29:23 1983
Received: Sun Jan 30 01:14:09 1983

    If the child is human 5 seconds after it is born, it must be human 5
    seconds before it traverses the birth canal.  And because nothing is
    supplied to the child during the nine month period when it is living
    in its mother's womb, other than food, oxygen, waste removal, and
    protection, then it must have been human from the very beginning of
    its existence, the moment of conception.  There is no magical moment
    when a child suddenly "becomes" human.  It always was.

"Beginning of its existence"?, "Always was"? - Do you believe a fertilized
egg is created from *nothing*?  Modern science suggests that just before
conecption the scene consists of an egg with a little sperm just outside
of it.  Why does whether the sperm is inside or outside change the moral
rights of the egg &/or egg/sperm system?  (You just said that in the case
of babies being inside/outside the womb made no difference.)

				    I used to take a casual accepting
    view of abortion until I forced myself to sit back and examine the
    facts that I have referred to above.    ...
					     If one accepts the fact
    that a child is truly a human being from the moment of conception,
    then one must be truly, overwhelmingly horrified at the 15 million
    abortion deaths that have occurred in the last 10 years.  Hitler's
    holocaust had nothing on modern day America.

It's kind of weird that you have to sit back and do intellectual
examinations to decide what is morally MURDER and what isn't.  Doesn't
seem like that is necessary in the holocaust case.