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RBF DEFINITIONS
Abortion:

"A foetus is just physical life, a bundle of reflexes like
a chicken running around with its head cut off.

"Consciousness and identity begin not with conception but
with birth. Awareness, that's the thing! . . . That's what
begins with birth.

Whether the Catholic Church survives or fails, depends on
whether it can make this philosophic recognition."

Citation at Life Is Not Physical, 13 Jul'74