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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Arnold</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>’s source (</span></font><a
href="http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/anand/">http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/anand/</a>)
states:<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=yellow><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Numerous lines of evidence suggest that even in
the human fetus, pain pathways as well as cortical and subcortical centers
necessary for pain perception are well developed LATE IN GESTATION [my emphasis],
and the neurochemical systems now known to be associated with pain transmission
and modulation are intact and functional.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=yellow><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am certain that this is true, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>. This is probably why NOW and
many other pro-choice organizations, when discussing and weighing various
options, counsel STRONGLY against abortion in the third trimester of a
pregnancy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=yellow><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>As far as I am concerned, I support NOW’s expressed
opposition to abortions in the third trimester.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=yellow><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On the upside, though, I am glad to see that you are
reading.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=yellow><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span class=yellow><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Moscow</span></font></span></st1:City><span
class=yellow>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>"If I wanted to overhear every tedious
scrap of brain static rattling around in your head, I'd read your blog."<br>
<br>
- Bill Maher</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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