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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: when does potential life begin?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 14:18:56 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- Message-ID: <1eav0gINN1al@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- References: <markts.721887230@mcl>
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- Keywords: abortion. life.
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- In article <markts.721887230@mcl> markts@mcl.ucsb.edu (mark.) writes:
- >
- > lots of talk lately about when life begins.
- > answer: when you are born.
-
- I must have missed all that talk about life while my newsreader was down. I
- saw some talk about when personhood begins - no-one knew the answer, aside
- from the legal position in the U.S., of course.
-
- > (or born-again, depending on who you are
- > talking to and what spectrum you are talking
- > about.)
- >
- > but now on to more philosophical, socratic
- > discussions.
- >
- > when does potential life begin?
-
- The Tuesday before time begins.
-
- > are we so proud of our sperm that each is
- > a potential life? do millions of would-be
- > souls scream in agony as they race out of my
- > penus and discover that they are in a
- > condom?
-
- I don't know. Did a would-be soul scream in agony when it raced out of the
- void and discovered that it was in markts.721887230@mcl?
-
- > is every egg a potential life? is pms a
- > mask for guilt that results from not fulfilling
- > that "life"'s potential?
-
- Socrates never asked such dumb questions.
-
- > when is a soul set aside for a life?
-
- The Monday before time begins.
-
- > or is life like an overloaded function?
- > can it exist without a soul, but with room
- > for that variable when it needs it.
-
- Probably the other way around.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- > mark.
-
-
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- when you make us free your way"
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