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- From: lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:08:13 GMT
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- In article <C0CsEs.6GB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S.
- Parker) writes:
- >vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >
- >>hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >
- >>>In a previous article, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:
- >>>>
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- >
- >Maybe this guy is ignorant of medical definitions? A "fetus" is "The
- >individual unborn organism carried within the womb in the later stages of its
- >development" according to Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary.
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- So is "child" according to Webster's Ninth Collegiate. Duelling dictionaries
- can be fun but ambiguous.
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- >> In an ideal world,
- >>say in 100 years, where all of society has accepted that babies are alive
- >>and "human" from fertilization, we could THEN impose punishments on women
- >>who pay for abortions. In that society which has accepted abortion as
- murder,
- >>where that is taught in school and by parents, then your contention would
- >>apply. As it stands right now, most women are victims right along with their
- >>babies that are killed.
- >
- >Maybe you should have yourself frozen for 100 years so you can come out into
- >this wonderful society you predict.
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- Heather, you don't have to stoop to name calling to make your point.
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- >I love the way people have to be *taught*
- >that abortion is murder. I guess even you realize that it is not natural to
- >feel so, but must be specifically taught that way for people to believe it.
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- I don't find this so contradictory, Heather. There is a tremendous ignorance,
- still with regard to human development. Gut feel is not a basis for life and
- death decisions.
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- - Paul
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