----- Original Message ----- From: John Thornton
>We have to define human life as beginning somewhere.
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Life and personhood are very different referents.
>Obviously it does not begin the moment of conception.
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There is no such event as the moment of conception.
>A human life is one that is living physically separate from another.
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Physically separate in a naive, perceptual sense? Separateness is very problematic if one takes one's cues from contemporary scientific theories..........
Ian