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  1. Newsgroups: soc.men
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth
  3. From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
  4. Subject: Re: Abortion and humanity
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.141029.12458@sei.cmu.edu>
  6. Organization: Software Engineering Institute
  7. References: <1992Nov16.180147.15583@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov21.174645.2757@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1emil6INNnjr@gap.caltech.edu>
  8. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:10:29 GMT
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  11. hatcher@MSUPA.PA.MSU.EDU writes:
  12.  
  13. >The fetus has NO *inherent*, *objective* value, only that which the
  14. >mother (and possibly father) places on it.
  15.  
  16. In article <1emil6INNnjr@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
  17.  
  18. >On the contrary.  A fetus has value as material for medical research.
  19.  
  20. And didn't the Nazis finally decide that Jews had some value, for
  21. exactly the same reason?  There must surely be ways to present the
  22. "pro-choice" case that don't carry a palpable stench of the abyss.
  23.