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To: Greg or e who wrote (7162)	3/2/2001 3:18:48 PM
From: cosmicforce	of 82486

. Biologically it is an easy answer. Life begins at conception No, that is wrong. That is like saying it is "magic" that causes Kuru. That is an easy answer but exceedingly difficult when you get past the oversimplification. Conception is clear to you, but not to me. I don't see masses of undifferentiated cells as "human beings" but you apparently do. "Being" in this context means: <definition 3a> a Person This term itself is vague and poorly defined. So without specificity in the language with all the emotional and connotational information, these word games get people no where. You invoke a deity to give it personhood and I don't. We are ultimately disagreeing upon the term because I give human being status only to operational human brains - anencephaly doesn't count as being a human being, but something almost like a tumor, missing the most important organ, the brain.

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