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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

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