Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Licensed to Define Message-ID: <2391@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 17:56:37 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2391 Posted: Thu Jan 10 17:56:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 02:39:00 EST References: <727@loral.UUCP> <362@pyuxd.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 18 In article <362@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes: >Actual answer: None, if you use the definition of baby to mean a fetus >brought to term and born; i.e., brought out of the mother's womb and >beginning its life as a human being---of course, the whole abortion issue >requires the answer to the question "Is it life if it's inside the womb >and not an independent organism?" and/or "When IS IT life?" Does this >person have the answer or just an opinion? Actual actual answer: who are we to say? Rich seems to think that we can simply define away this very difficult question. One could just as well take the Jesse Helms approach and define life as beginning at conception. Definition does not equal truth (except maybe in mathematics). By the way, this should not be construed to mean that I unconditionally oppose abortion. Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe