Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!drraymond From: drraymond@watdaisy.UUCP (Darrell Raymond) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: brain activity determines humanity (moral article?) Message-ID: <6517@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 13:39:42 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6517 Posted: Thu Mar 1 13:39:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 12:29:05 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 7 Since the cessation of brain activity constitutes death, perhaps the beginning of such activity signals life. This condition is probably easier to test than some fairly arbitrary level of mental capability (above dolphins? below martians?). Resolution of this issue still leaves the main problem - when is it valid to take a human life?