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From: "Santosh Helekar" <chimbel...@yahoo.com>
<<<...here is a quote from the pre-eminent geneticist and Dean of Yale
University School of Medicine, Dr. Leon Rosenberg, stating a position with
which the National Academy agreed:
"The crux...of the bill before you is the statement...."that present day
scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human
life exists from conception." I must respectfully but firmly disagree with
this statement for two reasons: first because I know of no scientific
evidence which bears on the question of when actual human life exists
second because I believe that the notion embodied in the phrase "actual
human life" is not a scientific one, but rather a philosophic and
religious one.
....If I am right in asserting that the question of when actual life
begins is not a scientific matter, then, you may ask why have so many
scientists come here to say that it is? My answer is that scientists, like
all other people, have deeply held religious feelings to which they are
entitled. In their remarks at these hearings however I believe that those
who have preceded me have failed to distinguish between their moral or
religious positions and their professional scientific judgments".
***With this silly argument, all unborn babies could be killed, because they
are not "human life" and abortion is not murder. Leave this silly argument
only for you, not for us in this New Year...
Regards.
Fr.Ivo