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To: Little Joe who wrote (160983)	7/15/2001 2:03:30 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

joe, there is only one thing I believe absolutely. The life of every person on this thread started some time in the past when an ovum met a sperm. From that moment a life started and a genetic foundation was laid out that defined in many ways how the individual would develop and respond to the stresses or environment that one was living and lived in. All an all a birth is a short event of stress and environment in most cases has little to do with who you are. In the case of some extreme trauma or accident at the time of birth this may be a major factor but for most cases this is just an event of hours in tens of thousands. Major factors of your looks, your iq, your ultimate possible size and even to different degrees what your personality is all start from the single fertilized ovum. As all experts have said all human life starts at conception. As a Catholic I believe the was one exception in history. That is a point of my faith. But that all human lives started at conception is self evident. Now all can express relative opinions about this and that and can you smile or whatever. But it is all conjecture. To me the question of life and death and choosing to end a human life that has started by conjecture seems the stuff of folks who can think like Adolf Hitler. I believe such a fundamental question has to rely on what one knows absolutely. All the rest is rationalization to feel good about doing when one is not really certain or having a way of proving certainty. tom watson tosiwmee