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To: Brumar89 who wrote (124217)	1/29/2001 3:02:57 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Message 15263868

To: Brumar89 who wrote (124217)	1/29/2001 3:17:38 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

I suspect here either you have failed to read the article you submitted, or you failed to grasp it. That article made exactly the same point I have made here. On the beginning of a human life: Scientists also know that a new human life begins at conception (fertilization). In an excellent book entitled The Position of Modern Science on the Beginning of Human Life (copyright 1975, Scientists for Life) we read this brilliantly simple and clear explanation on page 15-- "When did your life begin?" The answer to this question can be phrased simply by going backward in time. Before you were an adult, you were an adolescent, and before that a child, and before that an infant. Before you were an infant--i.e., before you were born--you were a fetus, and before that an embryo. Before you were an embryo, around the time of your implantation, you were a blastocyst, and before that a morula, and before than a zygote or fertilized ovum. However, you were never a sperm or an unfertilized ovum. Therefore, while life is continuous, your life began when the nucleus of your father's sperm fused with the nucleus of your mother's ovum, or at fertilization. [The Christian News (Jan. 13, 1986), p. 8] On birth control methods that are potentially acceptable because they do not murder humans: There are methods of birth control which do actually keep the sperm and the egg from uniting and therefore do not involve the destruction of life. We will list these, and for more detailed information a couple can contact their doctor or qualified books on this subject: 1. THE CONDOM. Used by the husband, these are readily available in most areas, are inexpensive and are effective when used properly. 2. VAGINAL FOAMS, CREAMS, AND SUPPOSITORIES. These are used by the wife and are also quite effective when used properly. They immobilize or kill the sperm and in some cases provide a mechanical barrier to the sperm. According to The Merck Manual, "As the woman's age increases, the effectiveness of these agents increases greatly and, in women over age 30, is similar [in effectiveness] to that of the IUD. 3. DIAPHRAGM. This is a device which is used by the wife and blocks the sperm from entering the cervix. It "must be carefully fitted by a physician, and the woman must know how to insert it so that the cervix is covered ... Contraceptive cream or jelly should be used with the diaphragm...." 4. RHYTHM. "For the rhythm method to be successful, the woman's menstrual cycles should be regular. To determine the period of abstention, 18 days should be subtracted from the length of the shortest of the previous 12 cycles and 11 days from the longest. Thus, if the woman's cycles vary between 26 and 29 days, the couple must abstain from ... day 8 through day 18 of each cycle. A more effective method is based on measuring the woman's basal body temperature each morning before arising ... Even with this refinement of technic, the failure rate of the rhythm method is estimated to be about 7%; without the use of temperature recording, the failure rate is several times higher" (The Merck Manual, pp. 1699,1700). Because of the fact that the couple are required to abstain from meeting one another's needs for approximately one-third of the time, I fear that this method is dangerous in light of the warning in 1 Corinthians 7:1-5. You have not been fair at all to the article. And that is a pity to your position.