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- From: gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga)
- Subject: Re: Unborn Children (Was: reconciling OT/NT)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.075342.14533@netcom.com>
- Organization: Gizmonic Institute - Home of the "Big G Burger"
- References: <nyikos.724980092@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Dec22.064638.16320@netcom.com> <nyikos.725130997@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:53:42 GMT
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- <nyikos.725130997@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- ><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) :
- ...
- >>>>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.
-
- "Fiction" was perhaps a little strong. Just because someone uses the term
- "child" to refer to a fetus in utero doesn't mean it is a child.
-
- >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.
-
- It has gross errors like the one you point out yet you believe the other
- parts of it?
-
- >>>>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?
-
- Gee, Beth's not answering. BTW, what's it to you? Are you offering to
- defend her too? What's this apparently overwhelming need you have to
- stick your nose into other peoples business?
-
-
- Gordon
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