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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: twisting (Thans for life)Read!
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:29:25 GMT
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- In <1992Nov6.211805.3125@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >clifton9220@iscsvax.uni.edu writes ...
- >>Again, I make the point. will a FETUS become a cow or a horse? No! It will
- >>only be a baby. By stoping its development, you are taking away the potential
- >>for life. Correct (I did say potential)? If it is not going to be able to live
- >>then you are ending its life before life-- Correct?
-
- Not correct. You are bending over backwards to satisfy the pro-choicers,
- all to no avail.
-
- >Again, I make the point. will an EGG become a cow or a horse? No! It will
- >only be a baby. By preventing its development, you are taking away the
- >potential for life.
-
- Its potential for a life such as we have been enjoying all these years,
- assuming you are talking about a zygote, and not an unfertilized ovum.
- Its life is nipped in the bud. But it is a biological life. The life
- of a sentient fetus is infinitely more of a life than even this.
-
- > Correct (I did say potential)? If it is not going to be
- >able to live then you are ending its life before life-- Correct?
-
- >Sheesh.
-
- Talk about ingratitude. Clifton humors you, and you say "sheesh"
- and proceed to lampoon him:
-
- >So then, do you think people should be required to have as many
- >children as possible? Require women to be pregnant for the first time
- >by the age of 18?
-
- Peter Nyikos
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