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- From: lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil
- Subject: Re: time
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- References: <1993Jan27.003654.23432@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:45:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.003654.23432@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >}}}In article 1234567ABC89026JAN93 god@universal.truth
- >(Galen Hekhuis) writes:
- >
- >If you can allow abortion at, say, 14 days, what is to
- >prevent you from drawing the line at 5 weeks, or 25 weeks,
- >or even 35 weeks? It is simply a matter of what
- >rationalization sounds good to you. Very few of us are at
- >all qualified to tell when "viability," "personhood," or
- >whatever happens, we have to rely on others, then we
- >determine what sounds good to us. Some folks may quibble
- >about gestational age or lmp methods of dating, some may
- >trot out experts that say that something significant happens
- >at two days while others may claim that it happens at 2
- >weeks -- it depends on your rationalization totally. The
- >only line that we can all see is birth, no matter where we
- >live or the level of our technology.
-
- I'm not sure what your are getting at Galen. If only seeing is believing then
- you might as well throw away your science books. Would you not use a
- contraceptive just because you've never seen a sperm or ovum???
-
- >
- >There are some folks who say something happens at conception
- >itself, and that length of gestation makes no difference
- >whatsoever. Those people must also be opposed to several
- >types of fairly common birth control.
-
- Yes that's true, so....
-
- > I'll address that in
- >a forthcoming post. I have numbered the posts backwards,
- >from 100 to 7, not for any good reason, but to try to
- >confuse some people. I have also screwed up the attribution
- >lines (I already have changed the quoting character, what
- >more can I do?).
- >
- >--
- > hang gliding mailing list: hang-gliding-request@virginia.edu
- > Galen Hekhuis UVa Health Sci Ctr (804)982-1646 gjh@virginia.edu
- > Illiterate? Write for FREE help...
- >
- - Paul
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