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To: Neocon who wrote (781)	9/7/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

I thought E's analogy was apt. When we think of human beings, we don't think of zygotes (fertilized ovum), blastomeres (one of the cells produced by cleavage of the zygotes), or morula (the solid mass of blastomeres)(still a ball of undifferentiated cells). At least, I don't think most of us do, probably because most people have no idea how fertilized ovum become fetuses. I believe that there are some on the thread who argue that a blastomere or a morula is a fetus. I may be wrong about that. How about you? Do you think using chemical or mechanical means to abort a morula is murder? If so, why?

To: Neocon who wrote (781)	9/7/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

But it is. You want to criminalize the prescription by a doctor to his patient of RU486. You write fancy prose proving that this is not because you think a divided cell is a "child," and you have to do that because you are not a yahoo. But you are insisting it be treated as though it were, in fact, a child, or human being. This is because you hold a religious tenet that stipulates that it is, and have no scruple against using the power of the law to force others to live by your stipulation. A divided cell is a child in precisely, precisely the same way in which an acorn is an oak is an Ethan Allen bedroom set. And you do want to force us all to sleep on that acorn, as you have admitted. (You just prefer to rename the machination by which you arrive at your stipulation "moral," because in America there is this pesky separation of church and state business; and people in this country tend not to like to have the religious precepts of others forced down their throats on penalty of imprisonment.) I myself feel to do that is not only unAmerican, and unconstitutional, but immoral.