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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Life begins at ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.075023.3495@netcom.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:50:23 GMT
- References: <93023.075954KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan24.092455.2849@netcom.com> <nyikos.728071661@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes ...
- > ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>Just what is an "individual life" supposed to be?
- >
- >Jerome Lejeune, the geneticist who discovered the basis of Down's Syndrome,
- >has some fascinating ideas on that.
-
- Pity you didn't include them for the rest of us to enjoy. You're
- really good at leaving out key information, by the way. Did you
- know that?
-
- >_________________________________excerpt_______________________
- >>>Ron Graham (quoting Nat Hentoff?)
- >>Lyman
- >
- >>> Once implantation takes place, this being has all the genetic
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>> information within that makes each human being unique.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>Wrong. Wrong. WrongWrongWrongWrongWrongWrongWrongWrongWrongWrong!!!!!!
- >
- >Truly a case of massive denial, as will now be seen.
- >____________________________________end of excerpt_______________________
-
- Anyone who asserts that genes make each person unique is operating in
- a state of extreme ignorance and/or naivite. To claim that anyone is
- solely the product of their genes is easily refuted by pointing out
- that one's knowledge of set theory, quantum physics, or LR(1) parsers
- is NOT instinctual and is, in fact, learned.
-
- --
- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
-