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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....

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To: Ilaine who wrote (429)9/6/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 6418
 
Not exclusively Catholic or even Christian. Conservative adherents of Judaism or Islam believe the same, I think. I don't know enough about Hinduism, Buddhism or the other major religions ... but I would give better than even odds that there is a tradition within them defining life from conception on.

I do suspect that finding a "line" at which the forming life is adjudicated to be a person is artificial, a philosophical conceit. From sperm to baby there are few definite milestones, just this glissando accretion of human characteristics. An embryo is undeniably human. But is it A human? This is not a question for science, it is a question for law. Jmo
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