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From: mcewan@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: I was a teenaged pregancy
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 17:11:00 EDT
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>>When an abortion is possible, there is no entity, if there were, this would
>>be a clear moral issue. There is only the potential of a sentient being.
>>You are trying to use your morality to draw a line of demarcation. Where
>>will that line be when a human life can be created from a skin cell underneath
>>your toenail?
>
>	I draw the line of demarcation at conception and I believe that it is
>both a moral and logical place for that line to be.  The natural result of
>conception is baby.  Even though it is just a clump of cells for a while, with
>no recognizable human form, it will develop into a baby if left to its natural
>course.  When skin cells from under your toe can be used to create human life
>I will still have a line of demarcation at conception.  A skin cell left to its
>natural course will protect you for a while and then die, flake off, but will
>never naturally become another human being.
>

I draw the line of demarcation at ovulation. The natural result of ovulation
is a baby. When an ovum is left to its natural course, its mother will respond
to her natural sex drive and the ovum will develop into a baby. Unnatural
practices such as abortion, contraception and chastity interfere with the
natural order, and should be banned.

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

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