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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- References: <30DEC92.15253702@vax.clarku.edu> <C031zB.6nE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <30DEC92.18072448@vax.clarku.edu> <C04w4u.CBs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec31.184629.13119@watson.ibm.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:56:17 GMT
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- margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
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- >In <C04w4u.CBs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >>That's not a fetus.
-
- >Right - in most abortions, it's an embryo, not yet a fetus.
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- Document this.
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- >>Don't put words into my mouth. Having sex and getting pregnant are not crimes.
- >>They are, however, actions that an adult must deal with like an adult.
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- >Abortion is one way of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy.
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- Abortion is a way of avoiding being a mature adult, which kills a baby.
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- >>Don't call it a fetus because I doubt you know what a fetus really is.
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- >Well, *I* think I do; what do *you* think a fetus is?
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- A fetus is the prenatal stage of a species in which the unborn offspring
- begins to take on the basic physical characteristics of its post birth
- form. In humans this occurs approximately 8 weeks after fertilization.
-
- Would you like anything more specific?
-
- >>Having sex is exactly the same thing. Once you have CHOSEN (pro-choice?)
- >>to have sex, you must grow up and be responsible for the result of that
- >>action.
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- >Getting an abortion is one way of taking responsibility if that action results
- >in an unwanted pregnancy.
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- Call it what it is. It is avoiding responsibility. It is also murder.
-
- >--
- >Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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- I now know you don't know anything about prenatal development.
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- Edward Simmonds-
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