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From: sunny@hoptoad.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Best for Others?
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Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 05:05:17 EDT
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>   "Morally, I cannot do anything but consider a fetus a 'person'."
>            ^^^
> It is fine for the poster to feel this way.  No arguments there. But he does
> not have agreement from the whole society.

A fetus is a body which is going to die anyway.

The spirit lives eternally.

There are more spirits waiting to incarnate than there are bodies to hold them.

Normally, the spirit takes the body between birth and 10 days after.

Therefore, abortion is not murder, where I'm defining murder to be depriving
a spirit of a body it already possesses prior to it's being willing to depart
its body.

Likewise, pulling the plug on a medically sustained body whose spirit
has already departed is not murder.

What's the difference, as far as the absent spirit is concerned, between its
potential or obsolete body being allowed to or forced to expire, by failing
to support it, whether that support came from a human womb or a set of
medical machinery?

				Sunny
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