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From: marco@andromeda.UUCP (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Reply to Carole
Message-ID: <6@andromeda.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 16:59:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: andromed.6
Posted: Sat Sep 13 16:59:05 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Sep-86 05:38:33 EDT
References: <5269@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Organization: Franklin's Tower
Lines: 32
Summary: Down with Penicillin !

In article <5269@decwrl.DEC.COM>, ferrin@tonto.dec.com (Doug Ferrin) writes:
> 
>  
> >In article <5152@decwrl.DEC.COM>, ferrin@tonto.dec.com (Doug Ferrin) writes:<
> >> 
> >>  
> >> > Try "I do not want to be pregnant,  and it's my body"  You are free <<
> > 
> 		My main	concern is that abortion is being used as a form
> 	of birth control and not for what it was intended - to save a 
> 	mothers	life, rape, incest etc.. 

          Is this really what it's intended for, though ?

> 	think an innocent third party ...
>       This blob of cells,...
> 	zygote or whatever label you attach to it has never
> 	developed	into anything other than a human being in all of
> 	history. So to say that it's just a mass of tissue is incorrect.

        You're right !  I'll say it's a mass of tissue that may someday
become a human being, O.K. ?  Acorns seldom yield anything but oak trees;
is an acorn an oak tree ?  All life on earth developed from single
celled organisms (you don't _really_ believe the fossil record is just
a shuck by the Almighty, do you ?).  Therefore single celled organisms
will _eventually_ become human beings.  Which leads me to the following:

                                 Down with murdering antibiotics !,

                                                            W.rat

And it's *not* killing a baby !