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- From: vlsi06@nest.ece.uc.edu (Gregory S Clausen)
- Subject: Re: I'm a bit pissed...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185004.16938@uceng.UC.EDU>
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- Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
- References: <1992Jul24.011954.16225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:50:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.011954.16225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >Recently I implied that Mr. Clausen was either disgusting or stupid for his
- >assertion that "abortion stops a beating heart." I pointed out that in the
- >majority of abortions there wasn't even a heart to stop beating. The
- >initial intent of my reaction was one of being a bit tired of assertions that
- >have little basis in truth, since then it has exposed that many of the people
- >who read and/or post to this group are woefully ignorant as to what constitutes
- >an abortion.
-
- For the nth time. The heart begins beating at 18 days, and by 21 days it is
- pumping, through a closed circulatory system, blood whose type is different
- from that of the mother.
-
- J.M. Tanner, G.R. Taylor, et al.,
- _Growth_,
- New York: Life Sciences Library, 1965, p. 64.
-
- If you have difficulties with this, please write Messrs. Tanner and Taylor.
-
- >I looked in a bunch of medical dictonaries, and several regular ones at that,
- >and without execption none of them mentioned a heart even in passing as a
- >condition of abortion. The most common description was one of "expulsion of
- >products of conception."
-
- Of course it wouldn't. A "product of conception" by definition does not
- have a heart, or any other human characteristic for that matter.
-
- --
- Abortion Stops a Beating Heart.
-
-