Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Dividing Lines Message-ID: <296@psivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 17:50:59 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.296 Posted: Fri Feb 1 17:50:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Feb-85 04:45:16 EST References: <150@spp1.UUCP> <252@scgvaxd.UUCP> <382@cadovax.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 24 Summary: In article <382@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes: >[......] >>Everybody is trying to answer the "important" question; At what point >>does the fetus become a human being. > >No, I don't think this is the important question at all. The question >I'm trying to find the answer to, is at what point does the mother >have to give up her rights in favor of the foetus. > >Keith Doyle >{ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd But this amounts to the same thing. The mother need not give up her rights in favor of what is not human, but that which is human does have rights which should not be abridged. Look at the arguments presented by both sides. The pro-lifers argue repeatedly that a fetus is human, pro-choicers continue to deny it. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or quad1!psivax!friesen