Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: The dox Message-ID: <1067@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 18:11:27 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.1067 Posted: Thu Sep 13 18:11:27 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 04:04:16 EDT References: <1129@hou4b.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 23 > We have something that's going to turn into a human being. The > human being will be too troublesome to have around. Quick! Kill it before > anyone realizes what's happening! > Yes, the human embryo has a habit of becoming something that any > one of us would recognize as a human being. It doesn't become human by > being sprinkled with fairy dust or by any intervention by any outside agency. > It has all that human-being-ness stored inside. But then how can you say it > is less than human? Embryos have "a habit of becoming something that any one of us would recognize as a human being" in the womb which is an organ inside the body of a female human being. If the female human being does not wish it to be inside the womb inside her body, and she chooses to remove it, and other people feel that this embryo with this "habit" should be brought to term to fulfill its potential to do that "becoming" which you describe, then these other people certainly have the right to take this embryo and bring it to term, perhaps in their own bodies. They could then take responsibility for the embryo (with its "habit" of becoming a human being), which is no longer a part of the woman from whose body it came. We would foolish to deny these people these rights to take care of these embryos and their habits. -- Occam's Razor: I liked it so much, I bought the company! Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr