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- From: cookc@marcus.its.rpi.edu (rocker)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:02:07 GMT
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- johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
-
- >Perhaps the problem is yours. A fetus/embryo may be attached to the mother's
- >body at the placenta, but it is not a part of the mother's body by any
- >definition. In fact, as a zygote, it is completely separate from the mother
- >and, like you, needs nothing more than adequate nutrition and a safe environment
- >to grow to any given level of maturity.
-
- Oh, cool. Since you believe this so strongly, I take it you'll have no
- objection if a woman removes the fetus intact, and leaves you to provide
- "adequate nutrition and a safe environment". I mean, hell, if it's that
- easy and it's not part of her body anyway...
-
- >Given any thought lately to what might have happened if abortion had been legal
- >and morally acceptable when Bill Clinton's father died while little Billy was
- >swimming through his second trimester, leaving a single mother without any
- >welfare or job skills? There would have been no "Hope" for Billy.
-
- Please spare us your fantasies.
-
- >// John Townsend
-
- -rocker
-