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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,soc.women,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Abortion and humanity
- Message-ID: <27528@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:29:08 GMT
- References: <1dq3b1INNj56@gap.caltech.edu> <Bxru3y.FG6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
- Followup-To: talk.abortion
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- In talk.abortion, smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.083200.5334@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com
- >(aaron.l.hoffmeyer) writes:
- >>In article <1dq3b1INNj56@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Pe
- >ri) writes:
- >>>jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue) writes:
-
- ...
-
- >I see two key statements in there. The first is that the Smiths would have
- >raised Baby Blue to be a good science student. The second is that the
- >reason none of these things happen is because this singluar, specific baby
- >was never born.
-
- This story is so touching, similar to that of little Red Riding Hood.
- The argument that this or that person might have the cure for cancer
- but wasn't born so it would be years later before it is discovered is
- a straw man of incredibly large proportions. I could just as easily
- make the case (and with much higher percentages) that the aborted child
- would have been a mass-murderer like the one down in Killeen, Tx, or
- been another Charlie Manson, or perhaps that nice afable fellow Ted
- Bundy. From recent research, it has been shown that genetics and pregnancy
- incidents can have large influences on behavior, although genetics by
- themselves don't really determine everything, but merely give probablities.
-
- >science, but then this implies that these tendencies are genetic. Science
- >has demonstrated that genetics play a relatively minor role in what someone
- >may or may not achieve.
-
- The role isn't as minor as that dated report would have you believe.
- It appears that genetics give the fetus possibilities to become certain
- things, which are amplified by occurances during pregnancies, such as
- smoking, drinking, drugs, or even physical abuse.
-
- This information came from a recent report on tv about a week ago. I
- wouldn't take it as the final word, though, since it appears to have
- the same fluidity as the case of whether eggs, the yolk, or the white
- were good for you in whatever proportions. The research is about as
- conclusive at this point.
-
- Ron Think about this one (seen on a bumper sticker):
- The road to hell is bumper-to-bumper
- Make a U-turn to God.
- The irony is priceless.
-