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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: important distinction
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 09:10:11 EDT
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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