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From: jtc78@ihuxm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: They finally said it!
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 16:01:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 16:01:53 1984
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Someone's posting contains a statement that sounds like:
"in 8 weeks an embryo becomes all it will ever be".

That person is anti-abortionist, so the number should be
pretty conservative. 
Anyway, during these 8 weeks an embyo apparently is not what 
it will ever be (has gills, other rudiments, practically no 
evidence of concience, because there's nothing to think with).

Should all these things be an argument in favor of
abandoning the blanket rejection of abortion, and
trying to better determine the threshold?

It looks like a simple corollary of the "8 weeks" (or whatever)
statement. And remember, the statement was made by anti-abortionist.

Not too many people out there who would object against aborting
a 1-week old embryo can find good arguments to support that position,
and that implies that some thresold SHOULD be determined.
Currently it is set at 26? weeks.

Question: where do you set your threshold, people?
Explain if it is 0.0 (although that also requires clarification).
  			Mike Cherepov