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  4. From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
  5. Subject: Re: Still Light On History????
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.030539.13765@cs.yale.edu>
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  9. Organization: Rescorla for himself.
  10. References: <1993Jan21.191146.29958@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1993Jan25.015447.27802@rotag.mi.org> <1734@tecsun1.tec.army.mil>
  11. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:05:39 GMT
  12. Lines: 34
  13.  
  14. In article <1734@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> riggs@descartes.tec.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes:
  15. >    Look, medical science is more advanced than it was in 1972,
  16. Yes.
  17.  
  18. >and if nothing else, the abortion debate has heightened the public's
  19. >awareness of how the fetus develops - that is, what features develop
  20. >when.
  21. Ok.
  22.  
  23. >So you can make the argument that not only is the fetus nonviable
  24. >(that is, unable to sustain itself outside the mother's body), but that
  25. >the fetus does not have enough "human" characteristics to have human
  26. >rights. Such a claim is just plain false by the 5th month of pregnancy,
  27. I disagree completely. Intelligence is the characteristic that
  28. I value in persons and 5th month fetuses don't have it.
  29.  
  30. >and the closer you get to the 5th month, the more "human" the fetus
  31. >becomes.
  32. Ok, but that doesn't make it a person. (I use the term
  33. intentionally).
  34.  
  35.  
  36. >I do not know of a single "pro-choice" individual or group that
  37. >is seriously dealing with this issue.
  38. Well, sir, perhaps if you pulled your head out of your ass, you
  39. would see some of them.
  40.  
  41. -Ekr
  42.  
  43. -- 
  44. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  45. Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S)              rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
  46. Former chemist now CM400 mechanic                 ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
  47.                         Don't believe anything you hear.
  48.