Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!spp1!johnston From: johnston@spp1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: When does life begin? IT DOESN'T! Message-ID: <139@spp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 11:19:51 EST Article-I.D.: spp1.139 Posted: Thu Dec 13 11:19:51 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 02:48:42 EST References: <1203@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 20 > ... > Given that, moral issues, like abortion, ought to be decided on criteria > that are the most important & meaningful for human beings & their lives > as we know them. Fetuses may be complex organisms & biologically alive, > but it doesn't easily follow that, just because of that, they are human. > > > Cheers, > Ron Rizzo > I'm a little confused. In the first sentence is a phrase "human beings & their lives". I've always assummed that I was a member of this class. Yet I find from the second sentence that while a fetus, though complex and alive, I may not have been human. Since I don't recall passing an acceptance test, I'm beginning to get worried. If there is criteria for becoming a human from a complex, biologically alive organism of homo sapiens, I'd better apply. After all, I've been lying on my resume. Mike Johnston