Weaving through the melodrama of your question, I think we can agree that the difference, in your example, is the legal difference between born and unborn.
Actually not a cut and paste. Simply the same question repeated and the same answer by you Linda. No answer. That's because there is no answer. But sometimes non answers speak volumes.
94 posted on 01/25/2006 11:34:25 AM PST by jwalsh07