Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2010-01-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
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Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2010-01-02 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
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Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

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Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2010-01-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
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Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

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Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-31 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:47:30 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com From a neurophysiological standpoint a rudimentary brain begins functioning at 10 weeks of gestation, as measured by the initiation of electrical activity. Cerebral cortical activity begins at 22 weeks of

Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-30 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?   From the non-religious philosophical standpoint, a person is an entity capable of perception, thought and willed action. Modern science tells us that these things are possible only if that entity possesses a living

Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Averthan avert...@gmail.com wrote: The vast majority of medical opinion holds that a human embryo or foetus is a distinct human person. This should be obvious to anyone with common sense. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:02:46 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com This is pure

Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
Here are my responses to some comments in this thread. --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au wrote: So in your opinion, when does an embryo begin to possess a living and functioning brain and thus become a sentient being, From a neurophysiological

[Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-29 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:04:03 -0500 From: Averthan avert...@gmail.com Keeping aside the legal conundrum for the jurists to unravel, it is important that we consider the ethical and social implications of the claim that women have a right to arbitrarily terminate their pregnancies, and that,

Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
Averthan avert...@gmail.com wrote: The vast majority of medical opinion holds that a human embryo or foetus is a distinct human person. This should be obvious to anyone with common sense. This is pure nonsense. The term human person is a religious term. The vast majority of medical

[Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-28 Thread Averthan
IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ? Averthanus L. D'Souza. An interesting case has come into prominence in Europe very recently. Three Irish women who had to go to Britain to procure the termination of their pregnancies are filing a suit before the European Court of Human Rights