Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxm!mhuxv!mhuxr!mhuxh!mhuxt!eagle!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion,net.women Subject: Re: Abortion -- where will the line be drawn? Message-ID: <2029@alice.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 16:47:35 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.2029 Posted: Wed Jul 6 16:47:35 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 00:36:05 EDT References: <866@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 10 On the subject of ''killing innocent children'' you are assuming life begins at conception. Indeed, most of the arguments for/against abortion deal with this issue of when life begins. To those who argue that life begins at conception, I submit you are dealing out a double-standard: After all, the medical definition of death is now when brain activity ceases (not, as it was years ago, when the heart stops); now, are you telling me that when sperm and egg meet there is brain activity? How can you have one definition of life at the beginning and another at the end?