Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver From: silver@csu-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Against Abortion Message-ID: <2284@csu-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 23:40:19 EDT Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2284 Posted: Mon Jun 27 23:40:19 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jun-83 06:12:22 EDT Lines: 17 This is in RE-response to an earlier (laudably open-minded) STATEMENT. To paraphrase a generally rational sentiment: "If you can arbitrarily define a fetus in the womb as a child, then whose freedoms among ours is safe?" I'll go further than just retort, and remind you (briefly) of one rational argument FOR freedom of abortion: Humans differ from other animals primarily by their intellectual ability. The fetal brain really starts to be human at about the sixth month of gestation. Before this time a fetus may LOOK human but, by one very unarguable measurement, it is NOT yet human, only potentially so -- the same as an unfertile egg. Considering the violent differences of opinion in this debate, both sides must be willing to compromise rationally, looking at the evidence.