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From: rggoebel@watdragon.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: A POLL?   FETUS: "it", "he" or "she
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 12:39:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 12:39:01 1986
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> I usually call a fetus a "he" because "he" is the more commonly used
> pronoun when an unknown PERSON is being discussed.  Would you call
> a friend an "it" (note: I said friend; I know many its :-)?
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	Our third child is still enwombed, but has a name: Kelly.  We call the
fetus Kelly.  Our other children, Kari and Jodi, were also named before
they became disenwombed.  We never had to use "it" "she" or "he" as we had
a name.  It didn't matter about sex; the names were fairly ambivalent.  I
don't think this is a radical or particularly novel idea, but I've never
found anyone who has done it?