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From: johnston@spp1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: If life begins at conception, th
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:47:18 EST
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> In article <4182@cbscc.UUCP> pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) writes:
> >From a biological standpoint, it seems to me that sex cells only become
> >an individual, a human being, when a certain specific event takes place:
> >conception.  After that it grows on its own.  If a human life begins at
> >conception it is not because of its potential to be human life, that potential
> >has been fulfilled.
> >
> 
>     This is incorrect, from a biological standpoint the moment of
> fertilization(conception) is not particularly special.
> To summarize:
> 	1) The ovum is freed from the mother when it is ejected
> 	from the ovary, in a sudden manner.
> 
> 	2) The only *immediate* effect of fertilization is to stimulate
> 	undifferentiated cell division.
> 
> 	3) The genetic impact of fertilization is delayed until
> 	cell differentiation begins, some time later.
> 
> Therefor -- Biologically there are *no* clear, sharp dividing lines,
> 	and *any* demarcation point is of necessity arbitrary.
> 	The issue must therefore be decided on different grounds.

Thanks for the biology lesson, but read the rest of Paul's posting. By the
time a woman suspects she's pregnant, is tested, and makes an appointment
to have an abortion, all this has taken place. (I'm talking a minimum of
a month). At that point, we know the result (IF LEFT UNINTERRUPTED).

				Mike Johnston