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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (21221)	7/14/2005 6:58:39 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

it doesn't count as an infant because it does not travel that last three inches ...And it is still parasiticly attached to someone else. TP

To: Greg or e who wrote (21221)	7/15/2005 2:53:31 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Here is the link I forgot to post (although I posted the full text). wcox.com.au Clearly, this is a counselling site for dealing with: WHEN A FETUS WITH AN ABNORMALITY IS DIAGNOSED. There is the compassionate attempt to use the language of parents who are expecting and wanting a baby but who must decide whether or not to let the fetus become a baby or to terminate it. It is normal for mothers who want a child to refer to the fetus as a "baby" when it has quickened. But a zygote is not an infant and neither is a fetus. There is no infanticide in killing a fertilized egg. I call my girlfriend "baby" sometimes. That does not make her a zygote. And calling a fertilized egg a baby does not make it an infant. Choosing to not sustain the life of a zygote is not infanticide. Because a zygote is NOT an infant. Obviously, MOST women who have carried the fetus to the point where terrible abnormalities are discovered were wanting to give birth rather than terminate. At the level of subjective feeling there is nothing wrong with an imprecise language. But it does no good in trying to resolve a philosophical polemic. As the site states in CONCLUSION: These general principles for counselling parents of a fetus with an identified abnormality are put forward in order to help those who are in a position to counsel the families and perhaps lessen the stress of the event for them by outlining positive options for the future.