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Subject: Re: Against Abortion
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Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 15:14:38 EDT
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A recent quote by ....!silver said that a fetus is not human until
the brain starts functioning, which doesn't occur until the sixth
month of pregnancy; that until then the fetus is not human - more
like a fertilized egg.

The newspapers have recently been talking about a woman whose baby,
according to ...!silver, won't be human for another couple weeks.
22 weeks is kind of short for a pregnancy, but the kid is just as
human as any other premature baby.

			Bill Stewart