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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway?
Message-ID: <590@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 10:40:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.590
Posted: Mon Jul  1 10:40:40 1985
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Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

In article <504@gitpyr.UUCP> tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) writes:
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> I guess it all comes down to a definition of when life begins.

It comes down to "at what time will society grant what rights to whom."

Rights are essentially social contracts.  They clearly are not natural laws
or "laws of god", despite much rhetoric to the contrary.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh