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Re: if abortion is murder, it's murder

#496
From: Karen Pittman
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 00:00
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Robert Reed wrote:
> 
> In article <54m0jd$jm4@ratty.wolfe.net> _dmc@wolfenet.com (Daryl dmc) writes:
> |gandalf@sonic.net (Walter Hansen) wrote:
> |
> |>      Nice dodge. It does not follow that a fetus is a "being". It does
> |>not follow that a fetus is anything more than a cancerous grouth.
> |
> |Excuse me for butting in, but a fetus is *not* a cancerous growth. That
> |is the most pathetic thing I've ever read.
> 
> It certainly isn't but only on the basis of outcomes, not in terms of process.
> Both fetal development and cancer demonstrate similar accelerated cell division
> and coincident development of support structures such as blood vessels, nerves,
> etc.  The only difference is the diferentiation and organization associated with
> fetal development.  You may consider it pathetic, but it is medically accurate.
> _______________________________________________________________
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> Robert Reed                        Home Animation Limited           503-656-8414
> email: robert@slipknot.rain.com    West Linn, OR 97068
> 
> It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming or
> tedious.
> --Oscar Wilde
>Karen writes: I have a friend that is only 13 years old, pregnant. She is white, and became pregnant by a black guy. Her father is a member of the KKK. She 
has told her mom, and her mother threatens to tell her father. She doesnt know 
what to do, and is wondering if abortion is the answer. What do you say to this 
?
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From: Karen Pittman <karen105@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: if abortion is murder, it's murder
Date: 1996/10/27
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