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From: liberte@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Random Definition - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 17:15:00 EDT
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/**** uiucdcs:net.abortion / weutil@ih1ap /  6:12 pm  Jul 16, 1984 ****/

	Only a minor point, but the Bible states that the human
fetus is not inhabited by the 'soul' until God breathes life into 
his/her nostrils.

		David L. Pope
/* ---------- */

This is quite a major point.  For those who use the Bible to attack
abortion, a reexamination is in order.  Certainly it is bad to kill humans,
but if a fetus does not have a soul, then killing of the animal body
is not so bad (I am a vegetarian and prefer not to kill animals).

This "random" distinction on where to draw the line seems to solve the main
problem.  It is not at all arbitrary.  The first breath is fairly distinct.


Daniel LaLiberte          (ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte)
U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science
{all absolutes are false  --  including this one}