Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-gigi!merrill From: merrill@gigi.DEC (Rick GIGI::Merrill DECRITE) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: "true religion" should affect your life Message-ID: <2726@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 09:12:43 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2726 Posted: Fri Jul 20 09:12:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jul-84 04:56:29 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 28 Religion should be reflected in your life and your life should be affected by your religious beliefs. Hence abortion (LIFE VS. CHOICE) SHOULD be discussed in net.religion with net.abortion used for the clinical aspects, specific instances, advice and requests for same. Ms.Ferraro gave the only reason that I could accept for choosing toterminate a pregnance: the result of a rape. What we need to do is to educate women who don't already know that a life is important. What DO different religions teach about the value,importance,rights of egg, cystoblast, embryo, fetus, infant, child, youth, adult, aged, dead? I must believe that God values all of them. Jesus had to tell people that little children were important and that "such were the kingdom of heaven." Catholicism teaches that all are equal "in the eyes of God." I think that is logical (even) since each stage comes from one before it. How do you feel about the use of fertilized eggs 0-14 days old for "experiments"? The "subjects" will be "sacrificed" after or during most of the "experiments." How would you feel about it if the egg/sperm were yours? I appreciate the knowledge mankind can learn from these tests, but we should approach doing such things with fear and trembling. If we "forget" to respect the rights of the "not-yet-alive" will we also (have we already) forget the rights of the "not-yet-dead"? Coma? 105? Rick