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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:00 AM

The baby and the petri dish

A discussion with Andrew Wilkow about that "trick question" on abortion.
Tim Grieve

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  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006 02:13 PM

    He can't answer...

    Your logic in the question you pose to Andrew Wilkow is airtight. If right to lifers agree that life begins at conception, it supposes that there is no difference between born and unborn children.

    Here's another question for him.

    You are on a jury charging a man with negligent homicide because he saved the petri dish and let the child die. How would you vote? Guilty or not. The accused, unlike Wilkow stands behind his beliefs and truly feels that he saved the five lives by sacrificing one.

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