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To: SecularBull who wrote (131708)3/13/2001 10:34:39 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
I think your position is at least defensible. Not sure I agree.



To: SecularBull who wrote (131708)3/13/2001 10:48:59 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Bull you said, "I guess that part of my logical reasoning behind the use of RU486 is that a line can be drawn there too. If the egg has not adhered to the uterus, it will not become an embryo. There are no other times, in my mind, other than conception and birth, that such a "black and white" line can be effectively drawn."

Since you draw the line at embryo's, how about in vitro fertilization when 4 or more embryo's are produced and only one or two is chosen to be implanted. All the others are frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored. Eventually they are implanted or destroyed. Is this abortion?



To: SecularBull who wrote (131708)3/15/2001 3:03:42 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
>If the egg has not adhered to the uterus, it will not become an embryo.<

If the "egg" mentioned above is fertilised, then we might as well say that "if the embryo does not acquire nutrients, it will not become a neonate."

Nothing profound here at all. It is all one and the same thing.