Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Beginning of Personhood Message-ID: <2716@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 16:57:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2716 Posted: Sun Sep 30 16:57:24 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 03:49:35 EDT References: <345@hou2b.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 11 > Seriously, why draw the line at birth? Look, this isn't a matter of some basic distinctions between being a person and not being a person. Arguably, an embryo in its first days is not a person, and a newborn baby is. Somewhere in between the change must take place. Exactly where we define it as taking place is completely a matter of what seems "reasonable" to the greatest number of people. Therefore the only way to determine where life really begins is to take a poll of everybody in the US and see what the consenus is. Wayne