Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: re: when does life begin Message-ID: <1102@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 12:11:46 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1102 Posted: Fri Nov 30 12:11:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:06:38 EST References: <122@spp1.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 22 [] >[Mike Johnston] >A pregnant woman provides no more for a fetus than a new mother. Warmth >and protection are provided in one case by a house, crib, blankets, and >holding and in the other case by a sealed, cushioned sac filled with a >warm amniotic fluid. Food is provided for infants by a bottle or breast and >in uterine, by the woman's blood as a nutrient carrier. Oxygen is free for >infants since its in the air. Exposure to air would be detrimental to the >fetus, thus the enclosed sac, but again the mother's blood provides this >essential need. 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 ...!{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]