Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!lipman From: lipman@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Abortion Message-ID: <5814@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 17:16:11 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.5814 Posted: Fri Feb 24 17:16:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 04:18:53 EST Sender: lipman@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 28 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: - [A (You realize of course that