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- From: au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:32:24 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) says:
-
- [Is a fetus a human stuff deleted]
- As to the "conceive and bear a son" line not
- >showing humanity, what does it show?
-
- It shows that God has foreknowledge. I don't think there's a Bibilical
- account in which God says "conceive and bear a son" with a subsequent
- record of a woman miscarrying. God knew that pregnancy would go full term
- and that the child born would be a boy.
-
- From the moment of conception the only thing that is
- >added is food and protection. All of the genes and dna that are needed, color
- >hair, eyes, sex, etc., are all present?
-
- Another, very important thing is needed: air. As I've posted before (and
- another person did too, I think), throughout the Bible the beginning of
- life is associated with the first breath, and the last breath is associated
- with death.
-
- If humans deserve to be protected, AND
- >THIS THING IS HUMAN, then why shouldn't it be protected?
- >(Just because it can't talk back?)
-
- The woman who is pregnant is unquestionably alive and has rights.
- Whether the fetus is human is a subject of endless debate--which
- shows no signs of ending any time soon. Therefore, let those who
- believe fetuses are human take care of those little things, and
- let those who believe they are not human do as their consciences
- dictate.
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