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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: An End to the Sanctity of Human Life Argument
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.060951.15498@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 06:09:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.094401.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> cdpert01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- >In article <C0CMoK.45t@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >> cdpert01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
-
- [Deletions]
-
- >> Well, if you hadn't said "definition", I would have let this go, but...
- >> According to Funk & Wagnals Standard Desk Dictionary:
- >>
- >> child: 1. An offspring of human parents. 2. A boy or girl, most commonly one
- >> between infancy and youth. 3. A descendant. 4. A childish person. 5. A
- >> product of a specified condition, quality, etc: a child of joy.
- >
- > I used the word "child" based on the definition in Webster's Ninth
- >New Collegiate Dictionary (1991).
- >
- > child: 1. a : An unborn or recently born person.
- > b (dialect) : A female infant.
- > 2. a : A young person esp. between infancy and youth.
- > b : A childlike or childish person.
- > c : A person not yet of age.
- > ....
- >
- > An "unborn person" is not a contradiction according to "Webster."
- >
- Considering the many other inaccuracies in "Webster" I don't think
- you'll find it considered a valid source here. As an example (and the
- mostrecently discussed here) look up fetus. "Websters" claims that the
- change from embryo to fetus takes place at the end of the first
- trimester, when in point of fact it occurs at the beginning of week 9,
- gestational age.
-
- [More deletions]
-
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