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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
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Posted: Mon Jun 27 23:40:19 1983
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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.