Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!gitpyr!myke From: myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: why is it? Message-ID: <970@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 17:13:06 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.970 Posted: Sat Nov 2 17:13:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:12:45 EST Reply-To: myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds) Distribution: net Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 27 (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 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!myke "Drawing from my fine command of the english language, I said nothing."