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- From: markts@mcl.ucsb.edu (mark.)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: when does potential life begin?
- Keywords: abortion. life.
- Message-ID: <markts.722289385@mcl>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:56:25 GMT
- References: <markts.721887230@mcl> <1eav0gINN1al@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
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- In <1eav0gINN1al@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >>
- >> lots of talk lately about when life begins.
- >> answer: when you are born.
-
- >I must have missed all that talk about life while my newsreader was down. I
- >saw some talk about when personhood begins - no-one knew the answer, aside
- >from the legal position in the U.S., of course.
-
- >> (or born-again, depending on who you are
- >> talking to and what spectrum you are talking
- >> about.)
- >>
- >> but now on to more philosophical, socratic
- >> discussions.
- >>
- >> when does potential life begin?
-
- >The Tuesday before time begins.
-
- frank@D012S658.uucp, i never realized you
- were a theologian.
-
- >> are we so proud of our sperm that each is
- >> a potential life? do millions of would-be
- >> souls scream in agony as they race out of my
- >> penus and discover that they are in a
- >> condom?
-
- >I don't know. Did a would-be soul scream in agony when it raced out of the
- >void and discovered that it was in markts.721887230@mcl?
-
- no. it cackled wildly and and rapped the
- following: we know no spectacle so
- ridiculous as frank@D012S658.uucp in
- on of its periodical fits of morality.
-
- >> is every egg a potential life? is pms a
- >> mask for guilt that results from not fulfilling
- >> that "life"'s potential?
-
- >Socrates never asked such dumb questions.
-
- oh frank@D012S658.uucp, you say the
- most romantic things. ah...sigh.
-
- >> when is a soul set aside for a life?
-
- >The Monday before time begins.
-
- >> or is life like an overloaded function?
- >> can it exist without a soul, but with room
- >> for that variable when it needs it.
-
- >Probably the other way around.
-
- i suspect you're correct.
-
- >Hope this helps.
-
- gee frank@D012S658.uucp, i still
- wonder when potential life begins.
- see if we knew when it begins, we might
- figure out when it ends.
-
- but do not fear, i am sure your's will
- begin any day now. it's only 4 days
- till tuesday.
-
- mark.
-
- if you're like frank@D012S658.uucp,
- and i know frank@D012S658.uucp is...
-
-
- >> mark.
-
- >--
- >Frank.ODwyer@ap.mchp.sni.de "You take slaves when you make us free,
- > when you make us free your way"
- > World Party - 'Ain't going to come til I'm ready'
- >
-
-