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To: AdamWeisshaupt
As far as I am concerned, he was alive when he was leaping, just as the fetus is alive when it sucks its thumb and kicks.

Whether the fetus is a living organism is not in question. It's whether or not it is a living soul. And, as I have been trying to point out, there are Bible grounds for believing it is not.

And as you point out, there are Bible grounds for respecting the fetus, whether it is a living soul yet or not.

But I am arguing that the "life of the unborn" and "killing innocent babies" and "abortion is murder" arguments (and justifications for seizing political power and controlling others) are based on "life begins at conception" -- the ensoulment of the fetus -- ideas, which the Bible does not support.

71 posted on 04/10/2002 11:17:39 AM PDT by Risky Schemer
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