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Subject: Abortion
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 17:16:11 EST
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From: squirt::arndt
Greetings everyone.  I have been following with interest the continuing
dialogue about abortion.  I am moved to make an observation.

It just seems to me to be a self evident proposition that human "life"
begins at conception and ends with death.  Even those first few cells 
ARE human and ARE life.  That is, they are not a group of dog or cat
cells and they are not non-living.  (Please note that I am NOT addressing
or appealing to any concept of "soul" or "quality of that life" used
to define what is or is not HUMAN.)  We may CALL those cells anything
we wish, fetus, blob, baby, it, or whatever - but the above status
("human life") remains true.  

Correct me if I am wrong, but abortion STOPS (is Kills too strong?) that
life.  It then becomes DEAD, RIGHT?

To restate a little if I may, it seems to me that human life is a continuum
from conception to death.  I have never heard, I think, an argument FOR
abortion that has been consistantly applied to ALL (as it seems it must
be to remain logical) human life along the continuum.

For example:

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