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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: re: when does life begin
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 12:11:46 EST
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>[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
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