Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Some Dingbats agree with Arndt, . . . Gosh! Message-ID: <657@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 02:42:30 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.657 Posted: Sun Aug 18 02:42:30 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:29:16 EDT References: <3658@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 38 In article <3658@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@squirt.DEC writes: > >From a recent Church newspaper: ^^^^^^ Funny thing, that. >"Sixty prominent physicians have recently declared that the 'biological >facts' show that the unborn are living human beings. No, actually: >The statement says in part that 'a human ovum fertilized by a human >sperm produces a BIOLOGICALLY IDENTIFIABLE (italics mine again,- >Tanenbaum, et al take note!) human embryo. That embryo contains all the >essential biological material and genitic information required for >complete celular maturation, human tissue and organ development." Sorry, Ken. This isn't news to anybody. Now... we were busy discussing whether an embryo has a "right to life" beyond it's mother's "right to her own body." >I realize this doesn't fit some people's ideology! But let's realize that >there ARE 'scientists' (wave your magic twanger, froggy!) out there who take >the same stand as the anti-abortion people. There are also 'scientists' that believe black people are inferior. How do you stand? The creationists learned a long time ago that if you attatch the word 'science' to any irrational concept, stupid people will not question it. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal Have they not suffered enough?" from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_