XPost: talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime   
   XPost: talk.philosophy.humanism   
   From: gowch@SPAMTHEENOThotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:08:53 GMT,  wrote:   
      
   ==>You still have not explained how drawing a breath   
   ==>can transform a lump of tissue into a human.   
      
   		I never said that drawing breath transforms   
   		a lump of tissue into a *human.*   
      
   		I said it transforms a fetus into a *person.*   
      
   ==>In fact, there is no exact act or moment that does that.   
      
   		Yes, there is.  Before the umbilical cord is   
   		cut and the human organism breathes on   
   		its own, it remains part of the mother.  The   
   		instant it breathes, it becomes a person,   
   		entitled to all the protections against   
   		homicide, abuse and other types of maltreatment   
   		any other person is entitled to.   
      
   		What is so difficult to understand about this?   
      
   ==> We should  allow   
   ==>for a chance at abortion but not allow it up to full term.   
      
   		"We" should mind our own damn business   
   		and refrain from telling women what they   
   		may do with their bodies -- and anything   
   		that may be growing inside those bodies.   
      
   ==>Young people, who often see things clearly, ask why you can kill a fetus one   
   ==>second before birth but not one second after birth.   
   ==>You cannot tell them can you?   
      
   		I certainly can.  I just did.  See above.   
      
   ==>Think about it.   
      
   		That's my advice to you.   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   than the birth of one more unwanted child.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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