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From: liz@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Society Needs a Definition of "Human"
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 15:20:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 15:20:13 1984
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Your definition would essentially make abortion illegal.  Brain
waves have been measured in the fetus as early as 8 weeks.  That
probably means that there have been brain waves present already --
maybe even as long as two weeks earlier.  Seeing as that's about
the earliest a woman finds out that she's pregnant...

At the Pregnancy Aid Center, we have the Time-Life pictures of the
developing unborn (*no* abortion pictures!).  They quite neatly do
away with any of the "glob" and "fetal" tissue arguments.

				-Liz
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