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To: E who wrote (3296)	9/20/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 6418

Right now, as you can see, I have other things dominating my mind, but you deserve a reply and these are important questions. The Jew is, or has become, a human person. The embryo is not, has not become, a human person. That, of course is the key question. In your judgment, at what moment in time, since you say not at conception, IS the embryo a human person deserving of protection from death? For me, I can't set any such time. I can't say "this second this embryo is not human, then bang, this second it is." But if you believe that at conception it isn't, and later it is, I think you have to say when and how it crosses that line and why you choose the point you do. What is your position about the "mercy" exceptions Neo would grant to some women, if he approved of their grounds for pleading for medical help? I turn the question the other way. Under what conditions is it okay for a person to kill another person? Society has long answered that: in self defense. If bearing the child will kill you, you have a right of self defense to destroy it. Otherwise, is it okay to take a life because something horrible short of death happened or might happen to you?