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From: myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: ancients predict usenet
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 11:12:21 EDT
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(Brian Wells) writes:
>>Do you have me and Rich Rosen mixed up? I never said abortions should be
>>legal anytime close to birth. They aren't now, and I certain never said they
>>should be! [me]
>
>	In your original posting, you mentioned that people could argue
>demarcation at birth, but that it would be arbitrary.

   Not arbitrary, both birth and conception are very distinct points. I don't
think there exists any justification for putting a line of demarcation at either
of these points however.  Placing of a realistic line is to a large extent,
arbitrary. There is no distinct point at which a fetus has a given level of
mental activity (how could you measure it, and what would the measurement
mean?), and deciding what level is too much is a value judgement that can be
based on nothing but ethics, i.e. arbitrary. So you have arbitrary pile on top
of the arbitrary.

>	I am curious though, why you included here the passage about my
>daughter while choosing to edit out the statement you had made prior to that
>about fetuses having no recognizably human features?  I am still wondering 
>what you had meant by that statement.

I just hate quoting myself all the time.
-- 
Myke Reynolds
Office of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Where we are going and from whence we came are completly unknown to us...
and personaly, I have no idea where I am now.