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To: PROLIFE who wrote (17192)	6/7/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Chap. Two cont. One may ask how an unborn child could be a "brephos", that is a breathing , nursing infant. The answer is seen by the simple fact that the fetus both "breathes", and receives nourishment through the umbilical cord proceeding from the placenta. In open heart surgery, what is known as a "cardiopulmonary bypass" is performed to enable the patient to receive oxygen in the bloodstream. Although the lungs are artificially ventilated during this procedure( to provent collapse), they do not oxygenate the blood during surgery. This is the same method which God long ago designed for a living, though unborn, child to receive the vital oxygen necessary for life. Truly, the inspired Gospel of Luke is correct in referring to John as a "BREPHOS" when he was a six month old fetus. This fact clearly disproves the twisted attempt of some liberal clergymen who seek to dismiss abortion as non homocidal. "A fetus becomes a person at the moment the first breath of air is inhaled" says the usual argument with a backup quote from Genesis 2:7. " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." True, the first time Adam breathed, was through his lungs, but, as we have seen, those who enter this world by birth, " breathe" long before their lungs inhale. **Dr. William J. John imforms me of common medical knowledge: at the end of the first trimester, the fetus breathes fluid steadily although the baby receives its oxygen from the umbilical cord, At birth the lungs continue the breathing movements inhaling air. The word "abort(ion)" itself refutes the arguement that life begins only at birth. The New American edition of Websters Encyclopedia of Dictionaries defines the word figuratively, " to fail to come to fruition". The life principle, therefore, must already be in effect prior to fruition. This is evident in nature all about us. The life principle placed in a plant by the Creator causes the fruit of a plant to bud forth and mature. The life is in the fruit before it burst forth out of the ground. In human abortion the life principle placed by the Creator in the procreative process is medically interupted. It is brought to an end before the gestation cycle has completed the birth of a child. Were the life principle not disrupted by man, the plan of God would result in the fruition of birth. chap. Two to be cont. Tomorrow.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (17192)	6/8/1998 12:04:00 AM
From: Alan Markoff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

DCF; Just killing something that is alive inside of you speaks for itself. It's called a conscious, its seems to be lacking in some. Their is nothing right about killing a fetus they are all victims, nothing less. The man is just as guilty as the women when an abortion is performed of course this is my opinion. Alan

To: PROLIFE who wrote (17192)	6/8/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 39621

DCF, What is a soul? It's just a matter of opinion whether that question can be answered in any conclusive way. Any official religious answer is man-made; therefore, open to debate since anything man-made(or even human-made) is infallible. My personal interpretation of the word "soul" is a human beings lifetime record of good, evil or shadings thereof. Since a fetus is not a separate, distinct, independent human being(up to a certain point in development) it is not capable of having a soul. Since it has no free will it contains no soul. My interpretation of the term "soul" is very liberal. There are those who believe an independent life only begins at birth. Just call me a dogmatic, holier- than-thou conservative on this debatable point. Be good, Ann