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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12147)	2/23/2000 3:51:00 PM
From: themadsnooker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Patricia my favorite pro-lifers are the ones who want to provide an exception for rape and incest. If abortion is murder, how does the identity of the father make it any less murder? It will be fun to see Bush try to explain the distinction if he wins the nomination.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12147)	2/23/2000 4:45:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Since we don't know when life begins Oh but we DO know when life begins. You just will not admit it. Here are just a few what I would call legit opinions on that very thing. When does human life begin? Appearing to speak on behalf of the scientific community was a group of internationally-known geneticists and biologists who had the same story to tell, namely, that human life begins at conception - and they told their story with a profound absence of opposing testimony. 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." I know you have the need to beg NARAL to answer the question for you, but the women and men listed above are good enough for me......... As far as organ donation, as I said, I have given the authority for doctors to make the determination when I am gone. AT THE VERY least why not do the same for the children? Ask them before you kill them, if you cannot get an answer, you need to wait until they are of the age of accountability to ask.