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To: toast
I read it someplace. I didn't make it up.

You missed the point of my question. For one thing, you do not know the moment the embryo differentiates. For another, it is an arbitrary milestone. You have chosen it because it is convenient for you. For other people it might be the end of the first or second trimester or viability. But in the end, it is a fuzzy date tied to no particular event than can be readily measured.

23 posted on 02/10/2003 8:37:55 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: hopespringseternal
You have chosen it because it is convenient for you.

I have chosen it because that is what I believe.

Everybody choses somewhere along the spectrum from conception to birth where they believe an embryo or fetus becomes a person. I believe partial birth abortion is a horrific act of murder. Then the logic goes the same for any late term abortion. The age of viability is constantly changing with advances in medicine.

On the other end some believe contraception is a sin. And a few believe a man needlessly spilling his seed for no good reason is also a sin.

I believe what makes man a being that is totally different from all others is his mind. Before there are nerve cells there is no mind.

It is common for families to shut off life supporting machines if a patient is diagnosed as brain dead. The persons life is deemed to have ended when brain function stopped. Does it not follow that a human being's life starts with brain life?

24 posted on 02/10/2003 10:28:25 PM PST by toast
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