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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Fetus = living organism (?????)
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 20:00:51 EDT
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>>Human beings are alive.  Living organisms of OUR species, whose rights we
>>respect.  Fetuses (funny you forgot to bring them up) are not.
 
> Fetuses are living organisms of OUR species. 

Then surely they don't need to "live" in a womb, they can be removed from
the body of a woman who doesn't want it inside of her, who might not want
(at this time, perhaps not at all) to allow it the privilege of using the
inside of her body as the place where it would become (eventually) a living
organism.  As you yourself asked in an earlier article, is there a biologist
in the house?  If you take it out and it ceases to function, it wasn't a
living thing, it was still a fetus in a parasitic stage of development.
It wasn't alive, it had to make use of the environment of a woman's body in
a parasitic way to survive.  If the woman wants (or doesn't want) to let
the fetus grow to term inside of her so that a living baby is produced,
that is her right.  As usual, it's that simple.

> (DEEP BLACK SARCASM ON)
> I certainly don't plan to bear kittens.  And since they are, why are their 
> rights being abused?
> Gee, maybe that's what we're here to discuss......
> (DEEP BLACK SARCASM OFF)

To quote a famous philosopher:  Huh?  Who's "they"?
-- 
Like a sturgeon (GLURG!), caught for the very first time...
			Rich Rosen   ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr