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To: Ilaine who wrote (429)	9/6/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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

To: Ilaine who wrote (429)	9/6/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Life begins at conception. This isn't a liberal or conservative idea, it's a Catholic idea. What, is that right out of the naral handbook? I guess all these folks just tow the Catholic line huh?? Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth, Harvard medical School, gave confirming testimony, supported by references from over 20 embryology and other medical textbooks that human life began at conception. * "Father of Modern Genetics" Dr. Jerome Lejeune told the lawmakers: "To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion ... it is plain experimental evidence." * Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman, Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic, added: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." * Dr. McCarthy de Mere, medical doctor and law professor, University of Tennessee, testified: "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception." * Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, concluded, "I am no more prepared to say that these early stages represent an incomplete human being than I would be to say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty ... is not a human being." * Dr. Richard V. Jaynes: "To say that the beginning of human life cannot be determined scientifically is utterly ridiculous." * Dr. Landrum Shettles, sometimes called the "Father of In Vitro Fertilization" notes, "Conception confers life and makes that life one of a kind." And on the Supreme Court ruling _Roe v. Wade_, "To deny a truth [about when life begins] should not be made a basis for legalizing abortion." * Professor Eugene Diamond: "...either the justices were fed a backwoods biology or they were pretending ignorance about a scientific certainty."