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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Ken Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Demarcation of life
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 21:44:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 21:44:32 1985
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From: bird@gcc-bill.ARPA (Brian Wells)
>        I draw the line of demarcation at conception and I believe that it is
>both a moral and logical place for that line to be.  The natural result of
>conception is baby.  Even though it is just a clump of cells for a while, with
>no recognizable human form, it will develop into a baby if left to its natural
>course.

Oh, really?  You (and other anti-choice people) have hit a new low
in misrepresentation with the statement that:

    it [the fetus] will develop into a baby if left to its natural course.

Pregnancy involves the _continuous_ transfer of material between
the bodies of the fetus and its mother.  Thus it is precisely _not_
"leaving" the fetus to anything.  If the placenta fails to transfer
the proper materials between the two bodies, the fetus will die.
If the mother's body cannot supply the proper materials in the
requisite quantities to the fetus, it will die.  The choice that a
pregnant woman faces is to aid the fetus or to remove it from her
body.  There is nothing whatsoever of _leaving_ it to "its natural
course" involved in this decision, because its "natural course"
_requires the overt aid of her body_.  It is pure misrepresentation
to suggest otherwise.

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cat and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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