Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:37:51 GMT, Gregory A Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I believe that if it's alive and it's a human, it should be 
>illegal to kill it, (with certain exceptions).
>
>I don't see that there's anything magical that happens at 
>birth that changes one from not alive to alive or not human 
>to human. So, I don't see a reason to make a distinction 
>between an 8 month fetus and a one month old baby. OTOH, at 
>conception, there is a significant change. A sperm and an egg 
>join together and create a new human. Neither the sperm nor 
>the egg by themselves are ~a~ human. They are part of a 
>human.

Thank you for the first on topic reply I have seen in this thread.


Steve Hayes
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