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Being and nothingness.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)

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| July 04, 2005 | McLaughlin, Francis M. | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Daniel Oliver argues that in deciding the morality of abortion we are faced with "the need to make a choice while not knowing whether the fetus is a human being" ("Deciding Abortion," May 9). He asks "how we should decide how to behave in the absence of certain knowledge about the humanity of the fetus."

But elsewhere in the same essay Oliver provides the certain answer he says we lack. "[S]cience agrees [that the embryo] is alive ...

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