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To: wideawake
Look; I'm a woman; I DID have a child out of wedlock, and he's the light of my life. But if a woman is raped, that's a whole different ball of wax. I don't have a problem with getting rid of a bunch of cells that have no resemblance to a human being. No neurons; no pain; pain is felt about the 16th week.

We'll have to agree to disagree; but if you ever want to get leverage in this debate, you can't go for all or nothing.

39 posted on 03/11/2002 3:48:12 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: DLfromthedesert
If you're making an argument from the point of view of pragmatic political battles, then your observation is probably correct: this compromise would be more palatable to the electorate.

Of course, the child one moment subsequent to uterine implantation looks no more or less like a newborn child than one moment prior.

All in all, I would prefer to examine the road of punishing rapists far more severely than we're accustomed to punishing them.

51 posted on 03/12/2002 8:54:47 AM PST by wideawake
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