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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
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 16:47:35 1983
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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?