POL: Abortion-neutral

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 1999 - 13:52:35 MST


I do not believe that a particular position on abortion, for or against,
should be part of the Extropian political principles. When does a cell
mass stop being an embryo and start being a sentient being? This is a
question of neurology and nothing else.

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        sentience@pobox.com          Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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