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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.032207.19098@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:22:07 GMT
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes ...
- >A sentient fetus is a "person" in the phenomenological sense of the
- >word.
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- Unless, that is, "sentient fetus" is an oxymoron.
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- >Boy, talk about reading comprehension problems! Fertile women and sperm
- >banks both contain potential human life: the unfertilized ova, and the sperm.
- >The fetus is actual human life. Pro-lifers are not into greatly
- >increasing the number of human beings on this earth; they are very
- >concerned about reducing their numbers by violent means, in utero.
-
- Are you suggesting that an unfertilized egg, zygote, and embryo are
- all NOT human life?
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
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