POL: Abortion-neutral

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:52:35 -0600

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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