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- From: sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: WILL THE REAL MISOGYNISTS PLEASE STAND UP? Case 1.
- Keywords: abortion, rape, sexual battery
- Message-ID: <Sep12.073833.18182@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 07:38:33 GMT
- References: <nyikos.715387086@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep3.211916.20669@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <nyikos.715653432@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <-cnnv-b.ray@netcom.com>
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- In article <-cnnv-b.ray@netcom.com>, ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- |>
- |> So then, this is rather wordy intro to the question: what is a human being?
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- A human being, medically, is the organism which results from the union of
- the sperm and the egg, causing a "joining" of chromosomes, one set from the
- father and one set from the mother, which creates a new "instruction set" which
- from then on directs the ontogenesis of the new organism. This new human being,
- given nutrition and care, requires no further genetic material to develop into a
- mature human being like you or me. This is not true of either the egg or the
- sperm, taken singly, nor is it true of anything else prior to conception.
- A human organism begins at conception and continues until death.
- The definition for "person," on the other hand, is a matter of personal
- opinion. The definition necessarily involves value judgements, and in the case
- of abortion it involves value judgements of the most bizarre kind. To say that
- abortions should be allowed is to say that the lives of some innocent human
- beings have no value insofar as the right to life is concerned. Why can this not
- be expanded to include other groups of innocent living human beings?
- Rationalizations abound, but they all fail on one point or another. Anyway, in
- the end, even the rationalizations themselves are mere opinions, value judgements
- containing many debatable assumptions. What are the rationalizations for the
- rationalizations? I don't know.
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- Steve
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