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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The dox
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Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 18:11:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 18:11:27 1984
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> 	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