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From: johnston@spp1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: re: when does life begin
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 12:21:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 12:21:31 1984
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> 
> Being provided with shelter by *someone else's* body is one H*LL of a
> lot more that being provided a crib, etc.!  Drinking out of a bottle
> and breathing the atmosphere are very different from pulling nutrients
> and oxygen direct from *someone else's* bloodstream!
> 
> --
> "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
> Ken Montgomery
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I don't see how they're very different. If you look at the sidelines of most
professional football games you see very alive people pulling in oxygen
from a tank and intravenous feedings are commonplace. How a person obtains
nutrients and oxygen does not make that person dependent on the source and
the reason for the original posting was to refute a statement on the
fetus's alledged biological dependence on the mother.

Thanks for supporting my statement.

				Mike Johnston