If someone were dependent upon you continually to replenish some substance, say, on a daily basis, to keep that person alive,  and supposing you to be the only possible donor, would it be an "act of aggression" for you to discontinue doing the replenishment, letting the person die?  If yes, then abortion would also be an "act of aggression."
  
  I wonder at what stage of development may the cluster of cells go into the "test tube" (so-called) in which a "test-tube baby" can live and develop normally.  When pro-lifers object to terminating the life of an unborn, perhaps they might be given the chance, themselves, to pay for the "test-tube" process of development as well as for raising the child after he or she is old enough to breathe air.
  
  I would like to remind everyone here that just because a child is born, that does not make a reason to suppose that both of his or her parents VOLUNTARILY engaged in sexual intercourse.  If there is no abortion except where rape can be proven, I predict you will see a greater occurrence of charges of rape.
  
  

wgilbert02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  I must agree with you completely Tom.

--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
wrote:
>
> Bucky,
>
> > If one is not a "person" 10 minutes before birth and
> > has no rights, what grants it personhood 10 minutes later, a week
> > later, or even a month or year later.
>
> That is, indeed, one relevant question on which the debate turns.
> Unfortunately, most of the arguments on all sides of that question are
> less than compelling. I'm hoping that eventually someone -- possibly
> someone on this very list, in some iteration of this very debate --
> will come up with a better argument than any I've seen (and I don't
> particularly care which side the argument is on, as long as it's a
> good one).
>
> Tom Knapp
>







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