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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.031610.14505@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 03:16:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.232819.14083@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.160656.4107@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>
- >>"Is a sleeper sentient?"
- >>Certainly. Just wake them up if you doubt it...
- >
- >Useless answer. A pro-lifer could just as easily say
- >
- >"Is a fetus sentient?"
- >Certainly. Just give birth to them if you doubt it...
- >
- Could say? Looks to me like one just did...
- To which I could reply
- *You* give birth to it and ask it yourself.
- Of course, this overlooks the simple fact that by the time you give
- birth to it, it is no longer a fetus.
-
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