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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Life begins at ...
- Keywords: Gestation
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:38:43 GMT
- References: <Bxru9v.G7J@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <92324.182910RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1993Jan21.180222.8996@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.211342.6241@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
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- [only including you to use the following, the post I am responding to expired]
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- >> = 90397106@bradford.ac.uk (JR HAVELOCK) writes:
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- >>I am currently writing an article on the stages of gestation. I would appreciate any details/
- >>statistics on this and any ideas (plus reasons) on when life beings. I was interested to note
- >> [...]
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- I took part in a high-school science competition (quiz show format) run by
- the Illinois Association of Phillipino Physicians (or something like that).
- Questions were submitted in advance (either by science instuctors or by the
- physicians themselves, I'm not sure which--maybe both) from which they were
- randomly drawn. One of the questions was litterally: "When does life begin?"
- There were a couple immediate objections and the question was thrown out.
- (They didn't take too long in deciding to throw it out, either; there is no
- way they could have come to a consensus on what the "correct" answer would
- have to be.)
-
- On another question a Chemistry textbook I had brought along was used to
- settle a dispute. (I don't remember what it was.) All in all, it was a
- pretty interesting day. Incidentally, I won 3rd place, and got the LARGEST
- 3rd place trophy I've ever seen! (It seemed larger than most 1st place
- sports trophies...) If only I'd responded sooner that the general formula
- for an alcohol is ROH, I might have had second...
-
- -Rob
-