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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <27799@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:44:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.184434.1068@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1eqetgINNik2@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
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- In talk.abortion, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >M. Price>
-
- >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.
-
- Here is a better one. It can be shown that an infant lacks sentience.
- This would allow one to draw the conclusion that a fetus, an earlier
- stage of developement, cannot be sentient either.
-
- As for anyone who wishes to pose the asinine argument that a sentient
- human being is an earlier stage of a dead human being, please note the
- the fetus is still developing, whereas a person who is dying is no longer
- doing so.
-
- 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.
-