"If you legalize the use of fetal tissue for research, then people will be selling it for profit. Soon women will be getting pregnant just to have an abortion and profit from the sale of their fetus

I can even imagine wholesale distributors storing thousands of babies, stacked up like sides of beef, in warehouses all over the United States." This is an example of
a. extravagant hypothesis.
b. slippery slope thinking.
c. false analogy.
d. hasty generalization.


b

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The classic Trinitarian doctrine, as worked out at Nicea and Constantinople, stood in opposition to which of the following errors?

a. tritheism b. subordinationism c. All of these d. modalism

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Many considerations have been brought to bear on sexual morality

What will be an ideal response?

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Bacon's advances were due in large part to the invention of the telescope and other scientific instruments

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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