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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (8946)	3/16/2001 6:08:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Do you feel zygotes have opinions, and are children, and that women should be forced to gestate them against their will by the arm of the state? Technically they may not be children in the same sense that a 8 month fetus, or a 32 year old man is not a child. They are human life at a different stage of its development. I think that no one has a right to kill them. If a woman could avoid gestating them without killing them then that would be fine however that is not currently possible. Tim Edit perhaps they are a child atleast according to this definition from www.yourdictionary.com Main Entry: child Pronunciation: 'chI(&)ld Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthei womb, and perhaps to Sanskrit jathara belly Date: before 12th century Inflected Form(s): plural chil.dren /'chil-dr&n, -d&rn/ Usage: often attributive 1 a : an unborn or recently born person b dialect : a female infant 2 a : a young person especially between infancy and youth b : a childlike or childish person c : a person not yet of age 3 usually childe /'chI(&)ld/ archaic : a youth of noble birth 4 a : a son or daughter of human parents b : DESCENDANT 5 : one strongly influenced by another or by a place or state of affairs 6 : PRODUCT, RESULT - child.less /'chI(&)l(d)-l&s/ adjective - child.less.ness noun - with child : PREGNANT