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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.014259.6046@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 01:42:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.062959.29552@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan12.043511.7335@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
- >by mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran):
- >> In article <1993Jan12.013918.9500@ncsu.edu>
- >> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >>>In article <1iqk4fINNflh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- >>>au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn) writes:
- >
- >>>> None of us has the right to impose our views on this
- >>>> subject on anyone else, least of all the government.
- >
- >>>I agree, none of us should have the right to impose our views
- >>>about abortion on an innocent child in the womb.
- >
- >> You have yet to show any evidence that there is a child in any womb.
- >> All I've ever found in them is a z/e/f.
- >
- >Mark, don't look now, but, um, there's a guy behind you holding a
- >dictionary. I can't be sure, but I suspect he's going to look up
- >the word 'child' and show you that the second definition is "an
- >unborn offspring". If he's really sharp, he might note that the
- >word comes from a root that means "a swelling up ... rounded (sense
- >development: swelling--womb--fetus--offspring)". Unfortunately, it's
- >just as likely that he's going to scream and rant and insult you
- >and ask you if you want to be an "abortion doctor" when you
- >"grow up".
- >
- That's ok, I can provide plenty of medical dictionaries that will
- contradict him. And I suppose since it hasn't been done in a week, we
- should once again point out that the term "child" is ambigous wrt
- z/e/f vs neonate, and thus it behooves us to use the more accurate
- terminology.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
- Member, T.S.A.K.C.
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