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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 11:22:24 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- M. Price>
- Me>>
-
- >>Probably a similar one to that which led you to assume that a human foetus is
- >>non-sentient.
- > Oh. So it was in an embryology text?
- >
- >BTW, the use of "non-sentient human fetus," unless tautological, would
- >seem to indicate an existence of a possible "sentient human fetus." In
- >which case, your above statement denies the possible existence of any
- >non-sentient human fetus. Is this what you really meant to do? Why?
-
- No. I mean to say that _any_ assumption relating to the sentience or
- otherwise of a foetus is asinine. Sentience as a criterion for foetal
- personhood is largely worthless, because we have no test for the existence of
- sentience in a foetus. It is as unreasonable to expect a foetus to pass any
- test for sentience as it is to expect a computer without a display to
- draw fractals.
-
- [ Now, before somebody argues that a comatose person has exhibited sentience
- in their past life, please firstly examine your assumption that the past is
- more important than the future. ]
- --
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