Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: important distinction Message-ID: <186@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 09:10:11 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxii.186 Posted: Fri Aug 9 09:10:11 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 21:30:35 EDT References: <9754@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 16 Keywords: life metabolism personality What Brian has just told us, if I read him right, is that he feels that "life" (second kind) does not start until a week or so after birth. My question is, then "Is it OK to just toss the newborn out with the trash since it does not yet have "life"? What a wonderful concept. Right away we can eliminate abortion, right? After all, if it does not have "life", then it must be nothing more important than the egg shells and coffee grounds in the trash and we can thus just throw it out. Women can carry the fetus to full term and then pop it out and throw it away. Other than a few months of discomfort, there is no problem, right? No more abortion debates. Really, Brian, is that what you are trying to tell us? Life does not start until a week or so after birth? I don't think the most vocal pro choicer would even believe that one. T. C. Wheeler