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Article #457Re: if abortion is murder, it's murder
From: Rob Hocker
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00
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Ray Fischer wrote: > > Rob Hocker <rah@teleport.com> wrote: > >Ray Fischer wrote: > >> Rob Hocker <rah@teleport.com> wrote: > >> >Ray Fischer wrote: > > >> >> I know of no pro-choice leader of > >> >> advocate who has either committed murder or commended murder. > >> > > >> >I guess the blood of millions of "young human lives" is enough for them. > >> > >> Just like the murder of hundreds of millions of "young human lives" > >> (aka, sperm) is enough for YOU? > > > >Sperm do not contain the full set of human DNA. > > So what? > The DNA of an organism scientifically *defines* (and settles) what the being is: i.e., the fetus is fully a human being; human sperm is not. > > Sperm do not > >multiply their cell count as does a growing organism. > > Sure they do. Give them a suitable egg and away they go. i.e., once they join with the egg to form a human being, the fully human cells start multiplying. > > > Sperm are > >therefore not human beings. > > And neither are embryos. If the embryo has human DNA, then it is scientifically a human being. Denying the scientific facts won't make them go away. BTW, if you believe that the human embryo (fetus) is not a human, why, in your post dated Sun, 3 Nov 1996 20:45:33 GMT, did you state otherwise: > TJ \"Spark\" Miller jr. <tjmiller@nwark.com> wrote: >> (BTW, you never >> told me what species you think a fetus should belong to, since you think >> that it's not human) > Stop lying. I have never said that a human fetus is not human. Rob.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,64603ffbe04c6f43 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,64603ffbe04c6f43 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 10e835,64603ffbe04c6f43 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e835,public X-Google-Thread: 105850,b96e15306975007b X-Google-Attributes: gid105850,public X-Google-Thread: 10a18d,64603ffbe04c6f43 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a18d,public X-Google-Thread: 111a85,10ff89500e49e4b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid111a85,public From: Rob Hocker <rah@teleport.com> Subject: Re: if abortion is murder, it's murder Date: 1996/11/04 Message-ID: <327EAA2E.3738@teleport.com> X-Deja-AN: 194487950 references: <326AC58E.5DAD@teleport.com> <327A8C16.24F3@teleport.com> <rayE08189.F84@netcom.com> <327C0B17.534D@teleport.com> <rayE0BB22.F7x@netcom.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: or.general,ca.general,seattle.general,chi.general,or.politics,talk.abortion x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)