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From: andrews@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Can John Brown be far behind?
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 01:00:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!andrews    Jan 29 00:00:00 1985

> /* Written  1:14 am  Jan 28, 1985 by preece@ccvaxa in uiucdcsb:net.abortion */
> >	Last Sunday New York's Bihop John J. O'Connor read these letters, by a
> >	13 year old girl, from his pulpit in St.Patrick's Cathedral.
> >
> >	They are from an unborn baby about to be aborted because of a
> >	defective heart.
> >
> >	...
> >
> >	Move over Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe.  
> --------------
> Fetuses don't think.  They don't verbalize.  They don't understand
> language from outside the womb.  At the ages when abortions are most
> common they don't have nerve pathways allowing them to sense anything.
>
Do you have any proof for this?  Have you ever heard of the fact that the fetus
will recoil from the needle, knife, or whatever when it approaches them, even
when very young?  Fetuses develop most major systems very earlier(I don't have
the exact date here).
> 
> You could as well write a series of letters from a sheep to a farmer
> asking that he not be slaughtered because next year he's going to
> grow just a super coat and make everybody proud.
> 
> scott preece
> ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece
> /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.abortion */

There is also a big difference between a sheep and the child.  No sheep has ever
spoken forth in known history.  But every human being alive was once a fetus.

				Brad