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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Unborn Children (Was: reconciling OT/NT)
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- References: <1992Dec18.003658.13726@noao.edu> <1992Dec18.073137.15851@netcom.com> <nyikos.724980092@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Dec22.064638.16320@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:16:37 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.064638.16320@netcom.com> gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
-
- ><nyikos.724980092@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >><1992Dec18.073137.15851@netcom.com> gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga) :
- >>><1992Dec18.003658.13726@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) :
- >>>>From article by madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann):
- >>>>> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes: >
- >>>>> Then if that's the case, kindly stop forcing your odious religion
- >>>>> on us good-hearted atheists. Sheesh.
-
- >>>>Sure, if you stop forcing death on unborn children.
- >>
- >>>OK. All us Atheists will now stop forcing death on unborn children.
- >>>Since there are no such things as 'unborn children' it should be pretty
- >>>easy to do. Now then, can we get back to the abortion issue?
- >>
- >>Check out _The Secret Life of the Unborn Child_, by Thomas Verny and
- >>John Kelly, Delta Books, 1988. I'll be sending your ex-girfriend Beth
- >>some excerpts from this book. Since the authors buy into the Dominick
- >>Purpura theory of timing of consciousness, she should have a great time
- >>with the book, and maybe even order it for herself. It comes in
- >>paperback for just over $10.
-
- List price on my copy, ordered less than two months ago, is $10.95 US
- and $13.95 Canadian.
-
- >>Also by Thomas Verny (with Pamela Weintraub): _Nurturing the Unborn Child_.
- >>Sorry, I don't have any publisher info on this one.
-
- >Works of fiction do not make mythical creatures real, Peter.
-
- Of the former book, R.D. Laing wrote: "A startling account of recent work
- in this field...timely, balanced, useful."
-
- Not the kind of review one makes for a work of fiction.
-
- Sure, there are bits and pieces of fiction in it, like consciousness
- beginning at six months when the available evidence points to a much
- earlier point in time, but it is also full of objective information on
- actual experiments run by eminently qualified researchers.
-
- >>>Pro-abortion, Pro-person, Pro-women's-rights and ex-boytoy of [...] Beth
- [...] ^^^^
- >>Beth, did you give Gordon permission to call himself your "ex-boytoy" as
- >>well as your ex-boyfriend?
-
- >I'm sure I can dig up the post somewhere, and I hereby give Beth, and all
- >my ex-girlfriends permission to use me as their ex-toy anytime. So there.
-
- That's not the point of my question. Beth, what's your side of the story?
-
- Peter Ny.
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