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From: myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: why is it?
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 17:13:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 17:13:06 1985
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(Kevin Smith) writes:
>Myke, if you have been following the discussion it is quite clear that 
>pro-lifers do not regard a "foetus" or however you wish to term the unborn
>as a mindless mass of cells.

A) I'm not concerned with pro-lifers in general (pmd, Ray, you, and the like)
 because (I'll try to put this politely) they aren't very dangerous. Matt on
 the other hand seems to be quite reasoned.
B) Matt has touched on nothing but peripheral subjects, and even in general
 little has been said about why pro-lifers feel this way, just that they do.
C) Does "mindless mass of cells with the potential to be intelligent in the
 future" sound better?

>If I believe the unborn, at any stage of being, to be in fact a living child,
>then it is as much my responsibility to try to stop its "termination" as if
>I saw a child standing in front of a speeding car, don't you agree?  This
>is certainly of moral consequence.

I'm not touching this with a 10 foot pole. If you can't see the difference
between a child and a 8 week old fetus then whats the point in arguing..
-- 
Myke Reynolds
Office of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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