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From: myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: ancients predict usenet
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 21:52:42 EDT
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aardvark@nmtvax.UUCP (Bill Gallagher) writes:
>If nothing has been put into the fetus, nothing comes out.
>The fetus becomes a thinking being (rather than an instinctual)
>when it is able to apply its experience and reason. Otherwise
>it's as eloquent as Fido. Experience *does* start in the womb,
>but if the fetus never gets to see the real world (ie aborted)
>it won't make any difference since it never knew it. 

Well, there are laws to protect dogs as well as humans, and I'm rather attached
to mine. He understands a small subset of English words (40 maybe) and has
real emotional depth.. I'm also attached to my cat who understand intonation,
and if someone intentionally killed her I would react quite violently..
(perhaps even if it wasn't intentional..) I want to give the fetus more then
benefit of a doubt, I want to protect it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Conception is obviously beyond the shadow of a doubt, 12 weeks is as well I
think. I hope this is what lawmakes had in mind when they set a limit on how
late an abortion can occur..
-- 
Myke Reynolds
Office of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Where we are going and from whence we came are completly unknown to us...
and personaly, I have no idea where I am now.